Funny aging quotes

Funny aging quotes can be great ways of finding inspiration and keeping your optimism growing older, as everything is easier and more pleasant if you can keep a positive attitude and smile.

There are many quotes on aging and maturity, and they bring a touch of optimism and humor to all sorts of topics, from young foolishness to emotional maturity, happiness, wisdom and so on.

Growing old does not necessarily have to be all about wrinkles and diseases, and you can still find your motivation even if you’ve gotten more birthdays than you can count.

All you need is a positive attitude, a good sense of humor and you’ll be able to face all challenges with a smile on your face, aging gracefully and seeing the benefits of aging.

• “By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.” Gorge Burns
• “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” Benjamin Franklin
• “ To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.” Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr.
• “Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” Golda Meir
• “The time to begin most things is ten years ago.” Mignon McLaughlin
• “To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.” Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• “You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” Michael Pritchard
• “When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to take credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.” I.F. Stone
• “Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.” Ambrose Bierce
• “A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.” Maurice Chevalier
• “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” Robert Frost
• “Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.” Jim Fiebig
• “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain
• “Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.” Don Marquis
• “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
• “I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.” Bob Hope
• “I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.” Henri Frederic Amiel
• “Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.” Din Marquis
• “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” Samuel Ullman
• “Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.” Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.” Chili Davis
• “In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.” Nikita Ivanovich Panin
• “A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life:  maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves.  A man’s age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• “Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour.  With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow’s hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.” Charles Dickens
• “When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.  It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.” Mark Twain
• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.  Douglas MacArthur
• “To remain young while growing old is the highest blessing”. German proverb

Mental wellness plays a very important role in the aging process, as leading an optimistic, stress-free life will have great benefits for your health. Growing older is a natural process that affects everyone, but those who love life, embrace change and are not afraid to face new challenges with a smile on their faces enjoy aging gracefully and feel as young as their soul is. And if these funny aging quotes brought a smile on you’re face, you’re one of them.