Depending on how well it's looked after, an aging car can either gleam with class, or rust into a pitiful heap. And people are no different.
Ride a rough road and the wear will show. A few knocks here. The odd bad experience there. You can't escape it, unless you choose to hide under a cover for your entire existence.
And where's the fun in that?
Personally, I can see a few cracks in the corners. And my bum(per) is a distant memory of the stylish shape it once was. But, I'm not yet ready for the scrap heap.
In fact, I'm actively embracing my 40 somethings (or at least, trying to).
I'm ignoring the grey hairs (mainly because the box dye refuses to cover them). And I'm practically rejoicing in the symphony of unusual sounds my body now makes.
With every step, it's like I'm auditioning for a horror movie soundtrack. An eclectic mix of creaks and groans are now well within my repertoire (so much so that I'm sure the makers of Sean of The Dead will be calling me any day now for their next film!)
But joke as I may, age is an unstoppable train. And turning 40 certainly seems to have spun my moral compass in unexpected directions.
The thought of continuously tip toeing round people to earn a few quid suddenly felt desperate, dishonest. And not where I wanted to be... Which is why I impulsively deleted my 'nicey-nicey' website and started over.
It was, in hindsight, a reckless manoeuvre. Us 'oldies' should be buckling down and saving the pennies - not skinny dipping in half-baked aspirations.
But here I am, baring all (figuratively speaking).
And on that embarrassing note, it seems fitting to share these funny quotes on aging.
53 Funny Quotes On Aging
“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.” - Tom Stoppard
“When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I’m labeled senile.” - George Burns
“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.” - Ogden Nash
“Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you are a cheese.” - Luis Bunuel
“As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.” - Sir Norman Wisdom
“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” - Kitty O’Neill Collins
"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." - Bob Hope
“You know you’re getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.” - John Mendoza
“There are six myths about old age: 1) that it’s a disease, a disaster. 2) That we are mindless. 3) That we are sexless. 4) That we are useless. 5) That we are powerless. 6) That we are all alike.” - Maggie Kuhn
“I don’t do alcohol anymore—I get the same effect just standing up fast.” - Unknown
"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old." - Mark Twain
“Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.” - Unknown
“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.” - Maurice Chevalier
“I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.” - Rodney Dangerfield
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” - Mark Twain
“You know you are getting old when everything hurts, and what doesn’t hurt doesn’t work.” - Hy Gardner
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” - Woody Allen
"You know you are getting old when you move something to a more logical location and then can only remember where it used to be." - Unknown
“You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.” - Joel Plaskett
“To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” - Oscar Wilde
"You know you are getting old when your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio." - Unknown
“There’s one advantage to being 102, there’s no peer pressure.” - Dennis Wolfberg
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.” - Lucille Ball
“Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places." - Unknown
“The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.” - Will Rogers
“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old. You grow old when you stop laughing.” - George Bernard Shaw
"Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy!" - Unknown
“You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.” - George Burns
“Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.” - Walt Disney
“I’m so old that my blood type is discontinued.” - Bill Dane
"Mid-life crisis? My whole life has been a crisis!!!" - Unknown
“Age is not how old you are but how many years of fun you’ve had.” - Matt Maldre
“Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up.” - John Wagner
"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men." - Unknown
“There is still no cure for the common birthday.” - John Glenn
“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your retirement home.” - Phyllis Diller
“We don’t grow older, we grow riper.” - Pablo Picasso
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." - Lucille Ball
“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” - George Bernard Shaw
“When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.” - Marty Buccella
"I can still cut the mustard...I just need help opening the jar!" - Unknown
“I don’t plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.” - Rita Rudner
“That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.” - Frances McDormand
“Old people shouldn’t eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.” - Robert Orben
"Inside every older person is a young person wondering what happened." - Unknown
“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” - Maggie Kuhn
“First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.” - Leo Rosenberg
“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.” - Bob Hope
“By the time you’re 80 years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.” - George Burns
“I don’t let my age define me, but the side effects are getting harder to ignore.” - Unknown
“It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.” - Unknown
“At my age ‘getting lucky’ means walking into a room and remembering what I came in for.” - Unknown
