Age Quotes

A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Bette Midler

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

C. S. Lewis

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Helen Gurley Brown

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

Jim Fiebig

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Don Marquis

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Confucius

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

Bob Hope

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Robert Frost

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

Susan Anton

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

Warren Beatty

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

Sting

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Willard Scott

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Sinclair Lewis

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan P. Smith

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

Mignon McLaughlin

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Doris Day

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Don Marquis

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Marvin Davis

Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles de Gaulle

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Gene Fowler

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Knut Hamsun

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Bob Wells

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Doris Day

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Dwight L. Moody

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Ira Gershwin

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

J. B. Priestley

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

James Thurber

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Josh Billings

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Muriel Spark

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Pearl S. Buck

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Amos Bronson Alcott

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Harrison Ford

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Henri Frederic Amiel

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Judith Viorst

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Theodore Roosevelt

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Max Lerner

I'm not afraid of aging.

Shelley Duvall

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Hume Cronyn

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

William Ernest Hocking

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Holbrook Jackson

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Doug Larson

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Harold Coffin

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Voltaire

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Leon Edel

It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Margaret Mead

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Beverly Sills

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Emily Dickinson

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Fay Weldon

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Christine Lahti

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Doris Lessing

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Frank Howard Clark

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Bill Vaughan

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Kevin Spacey

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Alan Bleasdale

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Francis Bacon

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

George Bernard Shaw

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Golda Meir

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

Katharine Graham

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Louis Kronenberger

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Pope Paul VI

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

William Feather

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Frances Conroy

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Sam Ewing

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Bob Hope

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Casey Stengel

All diseases run into one, old age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Bill Cosby

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

Jane Elliot

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Kitty O'Neill Collins

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Lec

Old age is no place for sissies.

Bette Davis

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Albert Camus

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Hosea Ballou

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Lauren Bacall

When you become senile, you won't know it.

Bill Cosby

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Brigitte Bardot

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

T. S. Eliot

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Andre Maurois

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

James Broughton

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

George Burns

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