As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

I just don’t have time to get old!

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.