Awesome Quotes About Growing Old

"For many people, retirement is something that is coming sometime in the future but they don't necessarily feel that it is imminent. The desire or need to retire, however, comes a lot sooner than most people expect. For some, retirement is forced upon them. Mandatory retirement at certain age may not be a corporate policy but corporations use downsizing to get rid of older workers. Workers, particularly those involved in specialized fields or intense manual labor, should also keep in mind that they may lose their ability to perform their jobs and be forced into retirement a lot sooner than they expect. As American boxer Sugar Ray Robinson stated about his retirement at age fourty-two in December 1965, "You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide,' and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid." The fact is whether they retire voluntarily or otherwise, one day many people wake up and don't have a job to go to." Ernie J. Zelinski, How to Retire Happy, Fourth Edition: The 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I’m old, the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

Sir Fred Hoyle
1915 — 2001

When asked how it felt to turn eighty:

Pretty good, considering the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier
1888 — 1972

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Edgar Degas
1834 — 1917

The Phillies offered me a contract to come back in January. The only contingency was that I had to lose twenty. So I lost twenty, reported to spring training, only to find there was a huge misunderstanding. They were talking years, not pounds.

Tug McGraw
1944 — 2004

Maturity is not an outgrowing but a growing up.

Unknown

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.

Casey Stengel
1890 — 1975

If anyone wants me tell them I’m being embalmed.

Casey Stengel
1890 — 1975

By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.

George Burns
1896 — 1996

All would live long, but none would be old.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Unknown

Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.

Unknown

Retirement is the period when you exchange the bills in your wallet for snapshots of your grandchildren.

Unknown

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings
1818 — 1885

Old age at least gives me an excuse for not being very good at things that I was not very good at when I was young.

Thomas Sowell
1930 —     

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956

Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother.

Dame Agatha Christie
1890 — 1976

The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon.

Charles M. Schulz
1922 — 2000

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

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

Cary Grant
1904 — 1986

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884 — 1962

You are never too old to be what you might have been.

George Eliot
1819 — 1880

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

André Maurois
1885 — 1967

’Tis late ere an old man comes to know he is old.

Thomas Fuller
1654 — 1734

Nobody wants the respect that youth pays to age.

Finley Peter Dunne

Oft from shrivelled skin comes useful counsel.

Saemund

In growing old, one grows more foolish and more wise.

Duke François de La Rochefoucauld
1613 — 1680

My secret to staying young: Having no sense of time.

Steven Wright
1955 —