“The thing about growing old is you have to accept it – if you don’t, you’ll be as miserable as sin. You’ve got to try and find the few good things about it.”
– Judy Parfitt
“Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can’t do, fear or even disgust at growing old.”
– Rowan Williams
“I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.”
– Glenda Jackson
“The trick is growing up without growing old.”
– Casey Stengel
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”
– Andre Maurois
“To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.”
– Michael Caine
“But time growing old teaches all things.”
– Aeschylus
“Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.”
– Billy Graham
“Growing old is not growing up.”
– Douglas Horton
“Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”
– Victor Hugo
“No one longs to live more than someone growing old.”
– Sophocles
“I’m not scared of growing old, I’m just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.”
– Melanie Laurent
“The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.”
– Logan Pearsall Smith
