Top 100 Grow Old Sayings
#2. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.
D.E. Stevenson
#3. Shall a man
grave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them on
the water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with my
generation, and die my appointed death, and be forgotten.
H. Rider Haggard
#4. I have no patience with people who grow old at sixty... Sixty should be the time to start something new, not put your feet up.
Mary Wesley
#5. That casual kiss on my cheek would have meant nothing up until recently, I realized I was in love with him. Not that, 'I love you, man,' type of love. Nope. I was ass over teacup in love with my best friend. The 'let's get married and grow old together' type of love.
Summer Michaels
#6. The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.
Bernard Baruch
#7. To grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.
Storm Jameson
#8. If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Gail Sheehy
#9. With me, baseball will never grow old. In my own estimation, it may not have improved so much as many believe, but regardless of everything, it is the same good old game. If I have contributed to its success, I do not refer to this in the sense of boasting. I had to or fall out of the ranks.
Charles Comiskey
#10. How much of our earth has been wet by blood because of jealousy! And at the end of life, what does it all matter? We grow old and the young look at us and can never see that once we made a kingdom ring for love.
Bernard Cornwell
#11. I want you forever, Kate. I want to grow old and have you here in my arms. I want children. I've wanted you for so long. I don't think that's about to change.
Christine Feehan
#12. Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.
Willa Cather
#13. Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time.
Mal Fletcher
#15. We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now ... but it will grow again ... like the trees.
Chief Joseph
#16. Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
Augusta Jane Evans
#17. I think that's the beauty of love, wanting to be with someone; taste their sweetness and their fears, live their lives and be there in their death, share their ups and their downs, and most importantly, love them and grow old with them, even if they were some kind of monster.
Cameron Jace
#18. My heart sank. 'You're not going to age another day,' I mumbled to myself. 'You'll never grow old.' He was done. I hadn't even started and and he was already done.
Kelley R. Martin
#19. So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink, put you to bed when youve had too much to drink.
Oh, it could be so nice to grow old with you, I wanna grow old with you.
Adam Sandler
#20. Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.
Jarvis Cocker
#21. If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old.
Carew Papritz
#22. If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.
Daley Thompson
#23. For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
Herodotus
#24. I see my discourse leaves you cold;
Dear kids, I do not take offense;
Recall: the Devil, he is old,
Grow old yourselves, and he'll make sense!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#25. Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don't know, but it's a world where there's no time, so space, no frontiers.
Paulo Coelho
#26. When the heart is happy it forgets to grow old.
Jeannie Gunn
#27. You know you grow old, when you start choosing your drink depending on its next morning after effects
Nik Krasno
#28. Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
Robert Frost
#29. Ancient person, for whom I
All the flattering youth defy,
Long be it ere thou grow old,
Aching, shaking, crazy, cold;
But still continue as thou art,
Ancient person of my heart.
John Wilmot
#30. I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
From the poem Mad Girl's Love Song
Sylvia Plath
#31. Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.
Socrates
#33. To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.
Donald Hall
#34. Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young?
Sylvia Day
#36. I don't want to grow old thinking 'what if I had done...'. I avoid the 'should have's' and take ACTION.
Rachel Smets
#38. They wouldn't grow up together, but could grow old together. They
Nora Roberts
#39. I grow old ... I grow old ...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
T. S. Eliot
#40. If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
Chuck Yeager
#44. When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
Alexander Pope
#45. No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
Socrates
#46. Those who were beginning to grow old had an air of youth, while there was something mature in the faces of the young.
Gustave Flaubert
#47. To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville
#48. I want to grow old with you," he whispers. "I want to let you win at bingo, I want you to help me find my dentures, and I want to spend the evening watching the sunset with you every night from our two rocking chairs."
-Jackson 'Blame It on the Pain
Ashley Jade
#49. Looking back," Ruby said, "I wonder why I was so afraid to grow old. Every day brought me one day closer to being here with You.
Randy Alcorn
#50. From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight. This being that could love a man, bear children, grow old, and die; to think one whole existence was in this weight.
Haruki Murakami
#51. To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.
Stefan Zweig
#52. A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.
Franco Modigliani
#53. I want to marry you, have babies with you, and grow old with you. I want to do everything on Earth with you and only you.
Micalea Smeltzer
#54. In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.
Graham Greene
#55. Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end.
How prettily Lorelei Lee sang these mordant lyrics!
Joyce Carol Oates
#56. We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer
#58. Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young.
Edgar Cayce
#60. It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - the superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. That which is enough is ready to our hands. He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
Seneca.
#61. Work hard now and reap the benefits later!
^^^ so wrong!
Work hard later and rip the benefits now!
(What do you want to do when you grow old, travel the world? Instead, get a cosy work place and enjoy the safe life!)
Bogdan Vaida
#62. Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitalbe but if you nurture a childlike heart you'll never grow old.
Beth Hoffman
#64. We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.
Laura Linney
#65. We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
Bernadette Devlin
#66. I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.
Bruce Forsyth
#67. If you have a dream as a child, but you let it go cold, you will grow old only to realize that you have sold your gold for no royalty!
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. I'd rather be killed fighting for Narnia than grow old and stupid at home and perhaps go about in a bath-chair and then die in the end just the same.
C.S. Lewis
#70. I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings, Hassan said.
His saying that made me kind of sad. Sad for who Hassan was, where he lived. For how he'd accepted the fact that he'd grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had.
Khaled Hosseini
#72. The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#73. To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#74. The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.
Louis XIV
#76. If we want to use forests as a weapon in the fight against climate change, then we must allow them to grow old, which is exactly what large conservation groups are asking us to do.
Peter Wohlleben
#77. Lila Kate will always be my baby girl. I will cherish and love her until the day I die. But you . . . you're the love of my life. You're my forever. I'll grow old loving you.
Abbi Glines
#78. I would say I am viewed as the oldest teenager in my family because they say I never grow old. I mean, I am stern in my own way - I am not one to let children run over me - but I am very, very good with children, and I can usually get what I want out of them.
Betty Wright
#79. I think suddenly about what it means to grow old. It means that all those that you loved as a youth become nothing but photographs on a wall, words in a story, memories in a heart.
Cynthia Swanson
#80. You are remarkably modern, Mabel. A little too modern, perhaps. Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde
#82. All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Billy Graham
#84. I could stare at you for a lifetime. It would never grow old."
"Even when I'm old?"
"Even then.
J. Lynn
#85. Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#86. I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.
Alan Hansen
#88. To grow old is to move from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus
#89. I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
William Shakespeare
#90. She will never grow old, her heart is too beautiful.
Nikki Rowe
#92. Men grow old, the end draws near, each moment becomes more and more valuable, and there is no time to waste over recollections.
Milan Kundera
#93. To grow old was to have lived a full life.
S. Jae-Jones
#94. Has it ever occurred to you that married couples endure watching their spouses grow old and feeble and senile all the time? That it's part of marriage? A hard part, to be sure, but not so hard that one just gives up on the institution altogether.
Sabrina Jeffries
#95. I believe in listening to what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.
Anne Lamott
#96. I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
Billy Connolly
#97. It's not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by the awareness that nothing will improve. No coming days will dawn brighter than the last that dawned, and this sorrow is further deepened by a fear of death ...
Thomas H. Cook
#98. God and love never grow old. Their being is and remains one that is coming.
Eberhard Jungel
#99. So, I don't know. I think so. It's all in the heart, whatever keeps you that way. Keeps you forever young. Forever young doesn't necessarily mean that you don't grow old, but you just have some contact with what put you where you are. You know, keep some type of contact. Anyway ...
Bob Dylan
#100. But I know nothing of time. I am new every day. I am born when I wake up in the morning, I grow old during the day, and I die at night when I go to sleep. It is not my fault. And I am doing so well today. I am doing so much better than I have ever done before.
Paul Auster
