Age isn’t a number, it’s an attitude. Aging gracefully means holding onto the passion and always preserving a sense of humour. Here is a list of wise and funny quotes for today’s seniors about aging gracefully. These funny quotes about getting older and aging with beauty should serve as inspiration for enjoying this remarkable time of life.
Funny & Inspring Quotes About Getting Older
- “At my age ‘getting lucky’ means walking into a room and remembering what I came in for.” – Anonymous
- “I don’t do alcohol anymore. I get the same effect just standing up fast.” – Anonymous
- “I don’t let my age define me but the side-effects are getting harder to ignore.” – Anonymous
- “I have successfully completed the thirty-year transition from wanting to stay up late to just wanting to go to bed.” – Anonymous
- “If I had known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” – Anonymous
- “It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.” – Anonymous
- “Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.” – Anonymous
- “The important thing to remember is that I’m probably going to forget.” – Anonymous
- “Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.” – Anonymous
- “Today is the oldest you’ve ever been and the youngest you’ll ever be again.” – Anonymous
- “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” – Woody Allen
- “Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.” – Iris Apfel
- “It matters not how long we live but how.” – Phillip James Bailey
- “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.” – Lucille Ball
- “Old age comes at a bad time.” – San Banducci
- “A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” – John Barrymore
- “Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!” – Ingrid Bergman
- “I’ve never known a person who lives to be 110 who is remarkable for anything else.” – Josh Billings
- “Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.” – David Bowie
- “You spend 90 percent of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10 percent trying to convince the Lord that you’re actually not that tired.” – Robert Brault
- “I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them got past.” – Robert Brault
- “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning
- “When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.” – Marty Buccella
- “To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” – Pearl S. Buck
- “Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.” – Luis Bunuel
- “At my age, flowers scare me.” – George Burns
- “By the time you’re 80 years old you’ve learned everything. Then, you only have to remember it.” – George Burns
- “I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.” – George Burns
- “Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.” – George Burns
- “People ask me what I’d most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.” – George Burns
- “When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I’m labelled senile.” – George Burns
- “You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.” – George Burns
- “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” – George Burns
- “I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.” – George Carlin
- “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.” – Coco Chanel
- “Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.” – Truman Capote
- “Some guy said to me: ‘Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock n roll?’ I said: ‘You’d better check with Mick Jagger.’” – Cher
- “Old age isn’t so bad if you consider the alternative.” – Maurice Chevalier
- “Grand children don’t make a man feel old, it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother that does.” – J. Norman Collie
- “Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” – Kitty O’Neill Collins
- “I’m 59 and people call me middle-aged. How many 118-year-old men do you know?” – Barry Cryer
- “I’m so old that my blood type is discontinued.” – Bill Dane
- “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.” – Chili Davis
- “The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it.” – Doris Day
- “As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.” – Margaret Deland
- “I’m at that age where my back goes out more than I do.” – Phyllis Diller
- “Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your retirement home.” – Phyllis Diller
- “Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.” – Walt Disney
- “Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.” – Walt Disney
- “Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.” – Albert Einstein
- “I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to.” – Albert Einstein
- “The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.” – Marilyn Ferguson
- “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford
- “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” – Ben Franklin
- “Life’s tragedy is that we get too old soon and wise too late.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Why would I worry about getting older – what’s to moan about?” – Dawn French
- “Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” – Betty Friedan
- “The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” – Robert Frost
- “You know you are getting old when everything hurts, and what doesn’t hurt doesn’t work.” – Hy Gardner
- “There is still no cure for the common birthday.” – John Glenn
- “Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.” – Bob Hope
- “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” – Bob Hope
- “Aging is just another word for living.” – Cindy Joseph
- “Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.” – Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- “Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” – Franz Kafka
- “Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” – Maggie Kuhn
- “At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” – Ann Landers
- “Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- “The trouble is, when a number becomes your identity, you’ve given away your power to choose your future.” – Richard J. Leider
- “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” – John Lennon
- “It’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit.” – Elizabeth Lesser
- “We must recognize that, as we age, we become like old cars. More and more repairs and replacements are necessary.” C.S. Lewis
- “In the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” – Sophia Loren
- “Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” – Larry Lorenzoni
- “Age is not how old you are but how many years of fun you’ve had.” – Matt Maldre
- “That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.” – Frances McDormand
- “Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.” – Golda Meir
- “You know you’re getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.” – John Mendoza
- “The idea is to die young as late as possible.” – Ashley Montagu
- “Something pretty… that’s just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don’t worry about it.” – Jeanne Moreau
- “My physical body may be less efficient and less beautiful in old age. But God has given me an enormous compensation: my mind is richer my Soul is broader and my wisdom is at a peak. I am so happy with the riches of my advanced peak age that, contrary to Faust, I would not wish to return to youth.” – Robert Muller
- “You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.” – Ogden Nash
- “Getting older. I used to be able to run a 4-minute mile, bench press 380 pounds, and tell the truth.” – Conan O’Brien
- “Old people shouldn’t eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.” – Robert Orben
- “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?” – Satchel Paige
- “Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” – Satchel Paige
- “If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.” – Tom Petty
- “There is nothing more aging than misery.” – Michelle Pfeiffer
- “We don’t grow older, we grow riper.” – Pablo Picasso
- “You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.” – Joel Plaskett
- “He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, you and age are equally a burden.” – Plato
- “It’s not how old you are. It’s how you are old.” – Jules Renard
- “Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.” – Keith Richards
- “Few people know how to be old.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
- “Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.” – Will Rogers
- “The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.” – Will Rogers
- “It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.” – Andy Rooney
- “Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “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
- “I don’t plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.” – Rita Rudner
- “Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.” – George Sand
- “I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.” – Mary Sarton
- “I’m just getting older and better.” – Neal Schon
- “The first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary on it.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
- “You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” – Edward Stanley
- “We are always the same age inside.” – Gertrude Stein
- “Age is a high price to pay for maturity.” – Tom Stoppard
- “Don’t waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you put your hands on in the world.” – Meryl Streep
- “No one is as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “The older I get, the better I used to be.” – Lee Trevino
- “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
- “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” – Mark Twain
- “The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.” – Mark Twain
- “When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.” – Mark Twain
- “By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.” – Bill Vaughan
- “My face carries all my memories. Why would I erase them?” – Diane Von Furstenberg
- “Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up.” – John Wagner
- “To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes, age just shows up all by itself.” – Tom Wilson
- “As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.” – Sir Norman Wisdom
- “There’s one advantage to being 102, there’s no peer pressure.” – Dennis Wolfberg
- “I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.” – Virginia Woolf
- “The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.” – William Wordsworth
- “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
