SAYINGS ON AGING

-The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball

-Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Mark Twain

-There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. Sophia Loren

-Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas

-The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. Oscar Wilde

-True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut

-Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Eleanor Roosevelt

-Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Francis Bacon
-You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing. Maurice Chevalier
-Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. Arthur Schopenhauer

-Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Mark Twain

-I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. Sting

-It is not how old you are, but how you are old. Jules Renard

-My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. Warren Beatty

-As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero

-After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. Bette Midler

-I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. Josh Billings

-In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. Beverly Sills

-My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. Warren Beatty

-I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. Josh Billings

-When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all. Yoko Ono

-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. Judith Viorst

-Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. Euripides

-Age is how we determine how valuable you are. Jane Elliot

-As men get older, the toys get more expensive. Marvin Davis

-Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. John Singer Sargent

-Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?' Nawal El Saadawi

-Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. Thomas Browne

-If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. B. F. Skinner

-Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. Muriel Spark

-A grownup is a child with layers on. Woody Harrelson

-Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams
-Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
-Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford

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

-I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. James Broughton

-I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. Olivia Munn

-Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. Donald G. Mitchell

-A man growing old becomes a child again. Sophocles

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

-Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. C. S. Lewis
- Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. Andre Maurois

- I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. T. S. Eliot

- I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap. Bob

- Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. Golda Meir

- I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. Henri Frederic Amiel
-Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

- When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo
- The trick is growing up without growing old. Casey Stengel

- Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. Hugh Hefner

-The surest sign of age is loneliness. Annie Dillard

-To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. Amos Bronson Alcott

- If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! Kevin Spacey