A Beautiful Message About Growing Old

If you rest, you rust. - Helen Hayes

Old age comes at a bad time. - Sue Banducci

Old age is life's parody. - Simone de Beauvoir

A prune is an experienced plum. - John H Trattner

Cherish youth, but trust old age. - Pueblo Proverb

Old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Bernard Baruch

The gods bestowed on him the gift of perpetual old age. - Oscar Wilde

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative. - Maurice Chevalier

If youth had but the knowledge and old age the strength. - French Proverb

There's one advantage to being 102. No peer pressure. - Dennis Wolfberg

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Fourty is the old age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo

Experience is a comb life gives you after you lose your hair. - Judith Stern

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow. - Proverb

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. - Bonnie Prudden

I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers. - Billy Casper

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. - George Santayana

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is first thought. - Emily Dickinson

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. - John Wagner

Middle age is when, wherever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater. - Denis Norden

Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age. - Chinese Proverb

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. - Christopher Morley

Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fibre, not the toy. - Unknown

Old age at least gives me an excuse for not being very good at things. - Thomas Sowell

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun, and fun is a lot more work. - Milton Berle

In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. - Josh Billings

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward. - May Sarton

When a man retires his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. - Chi Chi Rodriguez

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Francis Bacon

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. - Lillian Carter

We look forward to a disorderly, vigorous, unhonored and disreputable old age. - Don Marquis

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. - Anne Bradstreet

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age, and 'how well you look.' - Nelson Rockefeller

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. - John A Holmes

Middle Age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. - Harold Coffin

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. - Fred Astaire

Middle age is when you're old enough to know better but still young enough to do it. - Ogden Nash

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

Aging is the extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been. - David Bowie

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. - Doug Larson

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. - William Shakespeare

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. - Bob Hope

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. - Doris Day

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. - Victor Hugo

Middle age is when your classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. - Bennett Cerf

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off the lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. - Lillian Carter

The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. - Jason Love

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long. - Nikita I Panin

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it. - Golda Meir

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment. - Willem Dafoe

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. - C S Lewis

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. - Bill Vaughan

You can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you. - Mark Twain

I'm grateful that I never was that senior athlete who realized she'd done nothing but train all her life. - Clara Hughes

I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process. It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance? - Unknown

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. - Mark Batterson

I had a job selling hearing aids from door to door. It wasn't easy, because your best prospects never answered. - Bob Monkhouse

Middle age is the time in life when, after pulling in your stomach, you look as if you ought to pull in your stomach. - Unknown

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. - Fay Weldon

Not one of them who took up in his youth with his opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction. - Plato

Aging: 1. A supposed ripening into wisdom that most Westerners attempt to delay as long as possible; 2. A one-way street with no stoplights. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato