Quotes about Aging

Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.

The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Men become old, but they never become good.

Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having. I don't feel that, Lord Henry. No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly. Now, wherever you go, you charm the world.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.