Quotes about Aging

May you live to be a hundred years With one extra year to repent.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!

Despise not thy mother when she is old.

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on the rock of all that the past has taught me as I look to the future.

The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a mature man can be strong enough to be tender.

Properly understood, the marital sacrament is an encumbrance that paradoxically yields freedom. The wife is free to grow old and wrinkled without fear of divorce, while the husband is likewise free to become bald and potbellied without fear of his wife's abandonment. Covenants

Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.