Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

— Anonymous

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

— Juvenal

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

— Hesketh Pearson

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

— August Strindberg

“I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing…

— George Clooney

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

— Glenda Jackson

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list,…

— Leigh Hunt

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are…

— Evan Esar

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

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

— John Mellencamp

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are…

— Robert Browning

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can…

— Jonathan Safran Foer