Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

— Chili Davis

Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

— Orebela Gbenga

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but…

— Sebastian Horsley

“Growing old is inevitable - growing up is still optional”

— Lynda Wilcox

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

— Bob Monkhouse

Growing old is inevitable, growing UP is optional.

— Anonymous

Growth is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

— Anonymous

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young…

— Henry Ford

“She blew a stream of smoke up at the empty clotheslines. 'These silly dreams you have when you're young. I mean, what, Katie and…

— Dennis Lehane

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“now? When she looked at herself she saw her outside changing, growing older, while inside she still felt young. Aging was a strange thing—made…

— Debbie Macomber

I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do…

— Barbra Streisand

“Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren’t alone in growing older, they…

— Michael Thomas Ford

“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.”

— Julian Fellowes

“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from…

— Anonymous