This document contains 15 quotes about aging and growing older from various notable figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Billie Burke, Victor Hugo, Albert Einstein, and Coco Chanel. The quotes reflect on topics like the value of experience that comes with age, how age is perceived differently by younger and older people, maintaining a sense of curiosity even in old age, and humor about the physical effects of getting older.

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2.  "And in the end, it's not the years in your life
that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln

3.  "Age is something that doesn't matter, unless
you are a cheese."
Billie Burke

4.  "Age appears to be best in four things, - old
wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old
friends to trust and old authors to read."
Alonso of Aragon

5.  "Old age isn't so bad when you consider the
alternative."
Maurice Chevalier

6.  "Everything slows down with age, except the
time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your
hips."
John Wagner

7.  "Old age is the most unexpected of all the
things that can happen to a man."
Trotsky

8.  "Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old
age."
Victor Hugo

9.  "People like you and I, though mortal of course
like everyone else, do not grow old no matter
how long we live... [We] never cease to stand
like curious children before the great mystery
into which we were born."
Albert Einstein

10.  "No matter how old a mother is, she watches
her middle-aged children for signs of
improvement."
Florida Scott-Maxwell

11.  "In youth the days are short and the years are
long; in old age the years are short and the
days long."
Nikita Ivanovich Panin

12.  "Age merely shows what children we remain."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

13.  "Age does not diminish the extreme
disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream
fall from the cone."
Jim Fiebig

14.  "The great thing about getting older is that you
don't lose all the other ages you've been."
Madeleine L'Engle

15.  "A woman has the age she deserves."
Coco Chanel

16.  A man's age represents a fine cargo of
experiences and memories.„
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry