Age Quotes

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

  Amos Bronson Alcott

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

  Amos Bronson Alcott

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

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

  Aristotle

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

  Lauren Bacall

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

  Francis Bacon

• It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

  Brigitte Bardot

• 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

• 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

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

  George Burns

• To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

  John Burroughs

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

  Albert Camus

• Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

  Truman Capote

• Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

  Cato

• A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

  Maurice Chevalier

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

  Agatha Christie

• 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

• 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

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

  Frank Howard Clark

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

  Harold Coffin

• The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

  Joan Collins

• 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

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

  Bill Cosby

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

  Bill Cosby

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

  Hume Cronyn

• Old age is no place for sissies.

  Bette Davis

• 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

• 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

• All diseases run into one, old age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 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

• Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

  Jules Feiffer

• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  Calista Flockhart

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

  Doris Day

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

  Doris Day

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

  Emily Dickinson

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

  Euripides

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

  Jim Fiebig

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

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

• There is still no cure for the common birthday.

  John Glenn

• 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

• 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

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

  Bob Hope

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

  Bob Hope

• You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

  Bob Hope

• 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

• 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

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

  Sinclair Lewis

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

  Don Marquis

• 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

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

  Harrison Ford

• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

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

  Gene Fowler

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

  Robert Frost

• Old age is a shipwreck.

  Charles de Gaulle

• 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

• Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

  Victor Hugo

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

  Victor Hugo

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

  Louis Kronenberger

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

  Stanislaw Lec

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

  C. S. Lewis

• 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

• 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

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

  Bette Midler

• 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

• I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.

  Richard O'Brien

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

  Andre Maurois

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

  Golda Meir

• When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• It takes a long time to become young.

  Pablo Picasso

• We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

  J. B. Priestley

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

• Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

  Mary Schmich

• Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Youth is wasted on the young.

  George Bernard Shaw

• 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

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

  Muriel Spark

• The trick is growing up without growing old.

  Casey Stengel

• Age considers; youth ventures.

  Rabindranath Tagore

• I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

  Liv Tyler

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

  Voltaire

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

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

  Fay Weldon

• 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

• How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

• 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

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

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

  Beverly Sills

• Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

  Tom Stoppard

• None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

  Henry David Thoreau

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

  James Thurber

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

  Mark Twain

• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

  Mark Twain

• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

  Samuel Ullman

• Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

  Bill Vaughan

• Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

  Bill Vaughan

• Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

  Bill Vaughan

• The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

  Bill Vaughan

• The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

  Bill Vaughan

• 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

• 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

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