“ A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that somet… Michael Bassey Johnson
“ How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a seco… Joseph Heller
“ The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out. Donna Lynn Hope
“ The whole idea of it makes me feel Like I’m coming down with something, Something worse than any stomach acheOr the headaches I get from reading in bad light –A kind of measles of the spiritA mumps of… Billy Collins
“ I'm not opposed to aging - even though society is kinder on men than women when it comes to getting old. How can I look at aging as the enemy? It happens whether I like it or not and no one is set apa… Donna Lynn Hope
“ It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death… H. Rider Haggard
“ One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently. Mattie Stepanek
“ I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in my eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm gro… John Godfrey Saxe
“ Youth. I don't seek it through another because I have it within; it's a state of mind, a spirit that is free, and a mind that is playful. The shell of my being is altered by the effects of time, but n… Donna Lynn Hope
“ She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)! Mary Ann Shaffer
“ My fugitive years are all hasting away,And I must ere long lie as lowly as they,With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head,Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead.'Tis a sight to engage… William Cowper
“ One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them again. Ron Brackin
