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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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
Mignon McLaughlin
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.
Jack Nicklaus
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As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
Jean Paul Richter
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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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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken
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Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
Josh Billings
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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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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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As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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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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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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Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
Kenny Rogers
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You know you’re getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.
