By Julie E 
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Funny Quotes about Getting Older
“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” Kitty O’Neill Collins
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” Woody Allen
“It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.” Andy Rooney
“You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.” George Burns
“There is a spring of youth: your mind, abilities, and creativity, which you bring to your life and the lives of those you care about. When you learn to access this source, you will have truly overcome time.” Sophia Loren
“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old; you grow old when you stop laughing.” George Bernard Shaw
“By the age of 80, you’ve learned everything. You merely need to remember it.” George Burns
“The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it.” Doris Day
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” Satchel Paige
“People ask me what I’d want to get for my eighty-seventh birthday. I inform them about a paternity suit. George Burns
“Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” Edward Stanley
“I am very thrilled to be here. Let’s face it, at my age, I’m happy to be anywhere. George Burns
“If I had known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” Anonymous
Some guy said me, ‘Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock and roll?’ I said, ‘You’d best check with Mick Jagger. Cher
“I do not feel elderly. I felt nothing until midday. “Then it’s time for my nap.” Bob Hope
Birthdays are beneficial for you. According to statistics, the people with the most live the longest. Larry Lorenzoni
“At age 20, we are concerned about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t care what others think of us. At 60, we realize they haven’t been thinking about us at all.” Anne Landers
“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.” Ogden Nash
“Old age is an ideal time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing per week.” Maggie Kuhn
“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” George Burns
I feel about aging the same way William Shakespeare felt about death: ‘Everybody has to do it,’ but I always expected an exception in my situation. Martha Beck
“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been and the youngest you’ll ever be again.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Old age is like everything else. To be successful, you must start young.” Theodore Roosevelt
More Quotes About Aging—Inspiring and Wise
“But one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one’s dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is perhaps no great loss.” W. B. Yeats
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” Robert Frost
“Here are six myths about old age: 1) that it’s a disease or a calamity. 2) We are mindless. We are sexless. 4) We are useless. 5) We are powerless. 6) We are all alike.” Maggie Kuhn
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” John Barrymore
“Age is a question of mind over matter. It makes no difference if you don’t mind. Mark Twain
“The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.” William Wordsworth
“There is a spring of youth: your mind, abilities, and creativity, which you bring to your life and the lives of those you care about. When you learn to access this source, you will have truly overcome time.” Sophia Loren
“Don’t get old, no matter how long you live. Never stop being fascinated by the immense mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein
“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old; you grow old when you stop laughing.” George Bernard Shaw
“Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.” David Bowie
“As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.” Margaret Deland
“Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” Betty Friedan
“We don’t stop playing because we become older. “We get older because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” Frank Lloyd Wright
“For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.” Hasidic saying
“I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.” Mary Sarton
“Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.” Marilyn Ferguson
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” Ben Franklin
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” Franz Kafka
“The trouble is, when a number—your age—becomes your identity, you’ve given away your power to choose your future.” Richard J. Leider
“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!” Ingrid Bergman
“My physical body may become less efficient and attractive as I get older. But God has given me huge compensation: my mind is richer, my soul is larger, and my intelligence is at its highest. I am so content with the richness of my advanced peak age that, unlike Faust, I would not want to return to youth.” Robert Muller
“Grow old with me!” “The best is yet to come. Robert Browning
“We don’t grow older; we grow riper.” Pablo Picasso
“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, you and age are equally a burden.” Plato
“Laughter is timeless.” Imagination has no age. “And dreams last forever.” Walt Disney
“Old age isn’t so bad if you consider the alternative.” Maurice Chevalier
“Life resembles a roll of toilet paper. The closer you go to the conclusion, the faster it moves.” Anonymous
Quotes on Aging and Beauty
“My face has all of my memories. “Why would I erase them?” Diane von Furstenberg
“Your forties are good. Your 50s are fantastic. Your 60s are fantastic. And 70 is freaking fantastic!” Helen Mirren
“I do not intend to grow old gracefully. “I intend to have facelifts until my ears meet.” Rita Rudner
“Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.” Irene Apfel
“There is nothing more aging than misery.” Michele Pfeiffer
“What appears to be attractive is only the beginning. People are so concerned about aging, yet you appear younger if you don’t stress about it.” Jeanne Moreau
“My advice: Don’t spend too much time worrying about your skin or weight. Develop whatever you set your hands to in the world.” Meryl Streep
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.” Coco Chanel
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who continues to learn stays young. Henry Ford
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” Mark Twain
“Time may be a great healer, but it is a lousy beautician.” Anonymous
The most famous quote on aging may be the truest of all.
The most well-known quote on aging is that…
“Age isn’t a number; it’s an attitude.”
And, as it turns out, there is plenty of scientific evidence to back it up! Here are some of the several research examples:
Researchers from Yale and Miami University discovered that people who considered becoming older as a positive experience lived seven and a half years longer than those who did not.
Becca Levy of the Yale School of Public Health demonstrated that putting a more positive spin on our overall attitude of aging can make a significant difference in the health of persons over 65.
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