On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you…

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

— August Strindberg

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

— Brigitte Bardot

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay…

— John Phillips

One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.

— Samuel Hall Lord

the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense…

— Maggie Scarf

I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is…

— Wolf Kahn

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

— Maggie Scarf

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.

— Will Rogers

Being vintage like a fine wine Should make you proud of being old And being mature like a cheese Certainly explains the mould! Fester…

— John Walter Bratton

I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and…

— Bel Kaufman

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.

— Fran Lebowitz

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just…

— Phil Elvrum

Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything

— Thierry Henry

Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would…

— William Butler Yeats