As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I just want to be Patty McCormack. I want to spend every year aging the way she has.

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.'

I would probably, in my 60s, be ready to start having kids, as long as I was spared all the stuff about it that doesn't appeal to me. By then, I'd have lost interest in practically everything, so...

I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

No matter how extreme I've had to be, no matter how eccentric people perceive me to be, because I'm outside the norms, demonstrating that age can be arrested would change everything.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I have this weird thing about my face that it needs to look super young.

My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see...

I have become politically correct now. I have curbed my enthusiasm. I am in my mid-40s, so it doesn't make sense to talk brashly like a 20-year-old.

I qualify myself like a bottle of wine - the more I get older, the more it tastes sweet!

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.

For the unlearned old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.

Older age has taught one crucial lesson about life. It has taught me that regardless of where I've been I still have much to see and despite every fall I still haven't experienced it all.

Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have...

In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.

Folks double my age and older often run down a conversation tracking a vanishing world that will, with the passing of their memory, vanish entirely.

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

People don't get gentler as they get older but rather, harder.

I have to start loving what comes next and stop hating I won't be a part of it.

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!