Norman Wisdom on aging

As you get older three things happen.  The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

~ Norman Wisdom

John Lennon on aging

Count your age by friends, not years.  Count your life by smiles, not tears.

~ John Lennon

Eleanor Roosevelt on aging

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

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Henry Ford on aging and learning

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.  Anyone who keeps learning stays young.  The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

~ Henry Ford

George Burns on memory and aging

First you forget names, than you forget faces.  Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

~ George Burns, 1989-1996

George Eliot on aging

The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest.  You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

~ George Eliot

Muhammad Ali on aging

A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

~ Muhammad Ali

Louise Nevelson on aging and creativity

I never feel age...  If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

~ Louise Nevelson, sculptor

Chinatown's Noah Cross on aging

'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

~ Noah Cross, Chinatown (1974)

Anais Nin on love and aging

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

~ Anais Nin

Giff on the aging process

You can't outrun Father Time. 

~ Dave Giffen, a.k.a. "Giff the Sage"