The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

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

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

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!

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

‚Unforgiven‘ is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, ‚This is great, but I’d like to do this when I’m older.‘ So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

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.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

I like policy – call me a nerd.

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

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

Adults are obsolete children.

I just don’t have time to get old!

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

The older you get, the better you get.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

I am not a fan of books.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

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.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

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

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

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

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

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

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

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

Really, I don’t like roller coasters.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.