I dread getting old…I don’t want to have to wear bifocal teeth! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts, Linus van Pelt.
The thing about growing older is that your children get taller than you so they can see your bald spots. – Prince Charles
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. – Julie Burchill
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There’s something very front and center about being young. – Amy Grant
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles… like Audrey Hepburn. – Natalie Imbruglia
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to ‘stay young gratefully’ with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons. – Edith Head
I wouldn’t be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light. – Ruth Rendell
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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. – Herman Melville Henri Frederic Amiel
