Growing Old Quotes

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Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.

I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

Growing old is something you do if you're lucky.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.

Growing older doesnt bother me.