You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. – Fay Weldon
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese. – Billie Burke
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was? – Satchel Paige
A woman has the age she deserves. – Coco Chanel
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. – Helen Hayes
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. – Chili Davis
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. – Mark Twain
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find – at the age of fifty, say – that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about…It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. – Agatha Christie
It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length. – Helen Keller
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. – Samuel Ullman
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and just not think about your age. – Lucille Ball
When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height of your success won’t happen until you’re in your late 40s. – Helen Mirren
In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. – Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. – Maurice Chevalier
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. – Henry David Thoreau
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. – Cynthia Ozick
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. – Douglas MacArthur
There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn’t at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom. – Cornelius Otis Skinner
I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel. – Elizabeth Arden
The years teach much which the days never knew. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. – George Bernard Shaw
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. – Sam Ewing
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. – Florida Scott Maxwell
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. – Charles Dickens
Adults are obsolete children. – Dr. Seuss
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. – Unknown
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. – John Barrymore
Age is only a number. – Lexi Starling
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