Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old getting older quotes, getting older sayings, and getting older proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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1. As you get older threee things happen. The first is your memory goes, and the I can’t remember the other two.
Sir Norman Wisdom
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2. There is absolutely nothing to be said in favor of growing old. There ought to be legislation against it.
Patrick Moore
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3. As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
Robert Quillen
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4. A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.
R. C. Ferguson
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5. I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates..
T. S. Eliot
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6. The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been..
Madeleine L’Engle
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7. You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old..
George Burns
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8. Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
Unknown
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9. We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
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10. As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
Mignon McLaughlin
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11. The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.
Jack Nicklaus
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12. As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
Jean Paul Richter
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13. My mother always used to say, ‘The older you get, the better you get, unless you’re a banana’.
Betty White
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14. The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken
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15. Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
Josh Billings
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16. 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.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
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17. As we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping out minds active and open.
Clint Eastwood
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18. As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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19. I have found it to be true that the older I’ve become the better my life has become.
Rush Limbaugh
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20. One of the good things about getting older is you find you’re more interesting than most of the people you meet.
Lee Marvin
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21. Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
Kenny Rogers
