Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
~Chili Davis
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
~Mark Twain
The years teach much which the days never knew.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
~George Bernard Shaw
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
There’s no such thing as too late. That’s why they invented death.
~From the movie Out to Sea
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
~Agatha Christie
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
~Henry David Thoreau
First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.
~Leo Rosenberg
When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.
~Marty Bucella
Don’t worry about avoiding temptation – as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
~Author Unknown
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
~Mark Twain
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
~Henry Ford
Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you.
~Ravensara Noite
Age is like the newest version of a software – it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had.
~Carrie Latet
Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving.
~Author Unknown
I don’t know how you feel about old age… but in my case I didn’t even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.
~Phyllis Diller
The trick is growing up without growing old.
~Casey Stengel
The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.
~Joan Collins
I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.
~Sheila Kaye-Smith
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
~Kurt Vonnegut
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
~Ashley Montagu
Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.
~Attributed to John Wagner
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
~Ogden Nash
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
~Author Unknown
Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
~Author Unknown
I don’t do alcohol anymore – I get the same effect just standing up fast.
~Author Unknown
I’m not 40, I’m eighteen with 22 years experience.
~Author Unknown
Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men.
~Chinese Proverb
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
~Tom Wilson
Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up.
~Attributed to John Wagner
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
Middle age: The time when you’ll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.
~Robert Quillen
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?
~Satchel Paige
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
~Author Unknown
Everyone is the age of their heart.
~Guatemalan Proverb
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
~Herbert Asquith
We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.
~Author Unknown
It’s like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.
~Robert Brault
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
~Tom Stoppard
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
~Dorothy Fulheim
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
~John Barrymore
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
~Doug Larson
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~Samuel Ullman
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
~Douglas MacArthur
In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.
~Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
~Jim Fiebig
In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
~E.B. White
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
~Sam Ewing
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~Mark Twain
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
~John Mortimer
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It’s the sin of my middle age, too.
~Mignon McLaughlin
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
~Emily Dickinson
In a dream you are never eighty.
~Anne Sexton
Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
~François La Rochefoucauld
Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places.
~Author Unknown
Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.
~Daniel Defoe
There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important.
~Franklin P. Adams
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
~Allen
Age is a prison from which we cannot escape.
~Morrow Bourne
I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.
~Robert Brault
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
~Don Marquis
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
~Mignon McLaughlin
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
~H.L. Mencken
Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.
~Author Unknown
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It’s more often a succession of jerks.
~Jean Rhys
Age attacks when we least expect it.
~Carrie Latet
We are always the same age inside.
~Gertrude Stein
Old age ain’t no place for sissies.
~Bette Davis
The last birthday that’s any good is 23.
~Andy Rooney
At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.
~Robert Brault
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier.
~Dan Bennett
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
~William Allen White
Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
~Edward Young, Night Thoughts
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
~Mignon McLaughlin
You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
~Arnold Palmer
You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you’re actually not that tired.
~Robert Brault
It’s hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
~Mignon McLaughlin
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
~Jennifer Yane
Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever – but would rather not.
~Author Unknown
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
~Oscar Wilde
The elderly don’t drive that badly; they’re just the only ones with time to do the speed limit.
~Jason Love
It’s a mere moment in a man’s life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers’ Game.
~Vin Scully
All diseases run into one, old age.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
In dog years, I’m dead.
~Author Unknown
Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.
~Michel de Montaigne
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
~Mortimer Collins
When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.
~Author Unknown
The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.
~L.S. McCandless
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
~Author Unknown
We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we’re the grown-ups.
~Margaret Atwood
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
~P.G. Wodehouse
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
~Harold Coffin
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
~Hugo L. Black
They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I’m in a depression.
~Rick Majerus
We are only young once. That is all society can stand.
~Bob Bowen
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
~Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
~Edward Grey
Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
~Andre Maurois
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
~Benjamin Disraeli
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
~George Burns
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
~Voltaire
You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
~Bonnie Prudden
It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.
~Quoted by Raymond A. Michel
The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.
~Jack Nicklaus
You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
~Timothy Leary
It takes a long time to become young.
~Pablo Picasso
Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you
~Bennett Cerf
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
~Victor Hugo
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
~Bill Vaughn
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
~Maurice Chevalier
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
~Robert Southey, The Doctor
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
~Jerry M. Wright
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
~Bob Hope
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
~Caryn Leschen
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
~Victor Hugo
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net.
~Franklin Adams
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age – I missed it coming and going.
~J.B. Priestly
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.
~Author Unknown
By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out.
~Author Unknown
The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.
~Judith Regan
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
It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
~Brigitte Bardot
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
~Robert Browning
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
~John Glenn
Does age poison us, or do we poison age?
~Astrid Alauda
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
~Martin Buxbaum
Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother. ~G. Norman Collie
You can’t hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life.
~Author Unknown
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
~Robert Brault
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
~Francis Bacon
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
~Henri Amiel
We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
~Frank A. Clark
It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
~Robert Brault
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
~Saint Aurelius Augustine
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. ~T.S. Eliot
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
~Charles Dickens
You know you’ve reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired.
~Author Unknown
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
~Charles Lamb
Life is one long process of getting tired.
~Samuel Butler, Notebooks
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
~Leon Trotsky
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
~Benjamin Franklin
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. ~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
~Graham Greene
When you’re a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you’re older, it’s a straight part. ~Laurence Olivier
As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.
~Erma Bombeck
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. “Why,” I answered without a thought, “now.”
~David Grayson
Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.
~Billy Casper
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
~Truman Capote
Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.
~Robert Brault
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
~Jean Rostand
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. ~Madeleine L’Engle
Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.
~Martin H. Fischer
One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.
~Liz Smith
If your gonna screw up, do it while you’re young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.
- Winston Groom
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
– Alden Nowlan
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
- M. Scott Peck
Growing up sucks. Not all kisses are magic, and most boys do not live up to your expectations, but there are those times when everything, I mean love, romance, relationships, it all falls together perfectly and it’s incredible. It’s those moments, no matter how depressingly few and far between, that make growing up worth it.
- Unknown
Half of life is messing up; the other half is dealing with it.
- Unknown
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso
Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience… and pimples.
- Unknown
When you grow up your mother says, ‘Wear rubbers or you’ll catch cold.’ When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not.
- Diane Arbus
Life is all about growing up and becoming the best you can be and growing up quotes are those of the life quotes that will help young people to master the change life is bringing to them.
Let it be love for example and the sad heartbreak teenagers are experiencing so heartbreak love quotes will show them how other people felt in the same situation.
Share Growing Up Quotes with friends
It is always good to share some of those growing up quotes with your best friends and talk about the girl or the boy you are in love. Friends can help you in this time and quotes from other people can you even make you laugh as you see the world through other eyes. Even though your heart might be in pain at the moment growing up quotes will remind you that this pain will go away and you will wonder why you felt that way. Love is wonderfull thing and you should not forget this even it feels like if your heart is broken. It is hard for children to deal with those new feelings but everyone should keep those feelings alive for the rest of life.
Poems are a great source
Yes poems are a great source for growing up quotes as most of the poets wrote their feelings down and as the are talented in expressing them self the can say exactly say how it feels. Every chapter contains something you will find within yourself and maybe change the way you feel and see things around you. Those sayings can be very inspirational so remember them and keep them in your memories to tell your children about them in order to help them grow up.
