AGING

Even in old age they will still produce fruit; they will remain vital and green. They will declare, “The Lord is just! He is my rock! There is nothing but goodness in him!”

Psalm 92:14–15

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained by living a godly life. The glory of the young is their strength; the gray hair of experience is the splendor of the old.

Proverbs 16:31; 20:29

Age occurs when you find yourself using one bend-over to pick up two things.

You’re getting older when, while tying your shoelace, you ask yourself the question: “What else can I do while I’m down here?”

When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.

Cary Grant

Age is a sorry traveling companion.

Danish Proverb

When a woman tells you her age it’s all right to look surprised, but don’t scowl.

Wilson Mizner

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Chinese Proverb

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice.

The ten best years of a woman’s life are between the ages of twenty-nine and thirty.

Peter Weiss

You know you’re over the hill when you develop a taste for bran flakes.

He whose night out is followed by a day in is growing old.

I’m not over the hill; I’m on the back nine.

Forty is the old age of youth, and fifty is the youth of old age.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Satchel Paige

When you’re over the hill, your speed picks up.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams

Life gets more enjoyable the older you get. The hardest years in life are between ten and seventy.

Helen Hayes

If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law.

The principal objection to old age is that there’s no future in it.

One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.

You’re an old-timer if you remember when castor oil and camphor were the miracle drugs.

There are three things that grow more precious with age: old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

There’s many a good tune in an old fiddle!

You can tell you are growing older when …

You get winded playing checkers.

Your children begin to look middle-aged.

You look forward to a dull evening.

You know all the answers, but nobody’s asking the questions.

You join the health club—and don’t go.

You sit in a rocking chair and can’t get it going.

Your knees buckle, and your belt won’t.

You burn the midnight oil at 9:00 p.m.

Dialing long distance wears you out.

Your back goes out more often than you do.

The little gray-haired lady you help across the street is your wife.

You have too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet.

You sink your teeth into a steak, and they stay there.

Everything hurts, and what doesn’t hurt doesn’t work.

You can’t stand people who are intolerant.