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I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
Sep 10, 2025
You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
It’s frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
The older I get, the better I was.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Beautiful old people are works of art.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
The older I get, the better I used to be.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
All diseases run into one, old age.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.