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  • I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

    Years   People   Upset  
    The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, (p. 43), 1980.
  • It's tough getting older. You start falling apart, you know? My gums are starting to recede now. You can't tell tonight, though, 'cause I comb them forward.

  • Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

    Funny   Life   Birthday  
    Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.
  • It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  • A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

  • Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

    Time   Memories   Heart  
  • The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

    "International Herald Tribune" Newspaper (Paris), February 28, 1990.
  • [Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

    Source: www.washingtontimes.com
  • The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America
  • The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  • 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.

  • When I'm not writing, I tend to get depressed and a little bit surly. And then when I'm writing, suddenly I feel enlivened. Now the only thing as I'm getting older that I notice is that it's a pattern.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.

  • We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of being old ourselves comes as a surprise, and is often accompanied by the belief that there has been some mistake.

  • Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  • When you're young and you get to choose between sleep and sex you take sex everytime. You start getting older, you get to choose between sleep and sex, you choose sleep and just hope you have a dream about sex.

    Funny   Dream   Sex  
  • As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.

    Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2013.
  • When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

    "Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907
  • Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better

  • There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

    Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.
  • Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

    Funny   Time   Thinking  
  • How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

    Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)
  • One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

  • It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.

    Maturity   Eight   Years  
    Helen Mirren (2011). “In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
  • For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.

    Nice   Mean   Years  
  • If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

  • Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

    Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935
  • There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

    "Woody Allen: 'The Whole Thing Is Tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.
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