ageing quotes

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.