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Age QuotesFamous Age quotes by popular authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis, Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo and others.
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[highlight-text]Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle
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[highlight-text]Don't trust anyone over 30.
Pat Boone
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[highlight-text]An old man is twice a child.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore
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[highlight-text]Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis
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[highlight-text]All diseases run into one old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]You're never too old to become younger.
Mae West
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[highlight-text]It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
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[highlight-text]At 50 everyone has the face he deserves.
George Orwell
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[highlight-text]A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]Aging is mandatory. Maturity is optional.
Chris Antonak
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[highlight-text]Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]When you become senile you won't know it.
Bill Cosby
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[highlight-text]No man is ever old enough to know better.
Holbrook Jackson
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[highlight-text]After thirty a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler
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[highlight-text]We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. Priestley
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[highlight-text]It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus
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[highlight-text]The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel
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[highlight-text]Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Jules Feiffer
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[highlight-text]There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
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[highlight-text]We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]Youth is the gift of nature but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Lec
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[highlight-text]None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]It's not how old you are it's how hard you work at it.
Jonah Barrington
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[highlight-text]There's no such thing as old age there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon
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[highlight-text]Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]Middle age is youth without levity and age without decay.
Doris Day
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[highlight-text]Old age comes on suddenly and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]Anyone can get old all you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx
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[highlight-text]Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]You can't help getting older but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
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[highlight-text]Age cannot wither her nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
Garrison Keillor
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[highlight-text]Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
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[highlight-text]Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope
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[highlight-text]Bashfulness is an ornament to youth but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Alas after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.
Nachman of Bratslav
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[highlight-text]Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Alexander Hamilton
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[highlight-text]Half of maturity consists of knowing when and how to be immature.
Chris Bowyer
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[highlight-text]Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]I guess I don't so much mind being old as I mind being fat and old.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Gene Fowler
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[highlight-text]Whatever poet orator or sage may say of it old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
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[highlight-text]At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope
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[highlight-text]Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley
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[highlight-text]When they tell me I'm too old to do something I attempt it immediately.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Beverly Sills
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[highlight-text]People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong fortunately.
Russell Baker
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[highlight-text]Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
James Thurber
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[highlight-text]I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall
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[highlight-text]I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.
Nachman of Bratslav
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[highlight-text]How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
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[highlight-text]Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
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[highlight-text]Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age but they die young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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[highlight-text]The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope
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[highlight-text]What most persons consider as virtue after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]Youth troubles over eternity age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
Dame Mary Gilmore
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[highlight-text]And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.
Wayne Dyer
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[highlight-text]We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank Howard Clark
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[highlight-text]A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin
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[highlight-text]Beautiful young people are accidents of nature But beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
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[highlight-text]The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Schopenhauer
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[highlight-text]After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown
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[highlight-text]The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson
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[highlight-text]I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden
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[highlight-text]My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny Youngman
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[highlight-text]Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you you should stay home and have a good cry.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.
Golda Meir
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[highlight-text]When grace is joined with wrinkles it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
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[highlight-text]Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig
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[highlight-text]The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better they don't know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Bill Cosby
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[highlight-text]True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
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[highlight-text]While one finds company in himself and his pursuits he cannot feel old no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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[highlight-text]Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis
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[highlight-text]If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred.
George Burns
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[highlight-text]Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Louis Kronenberger
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[highlight-text]When a noble life has prepared old age it is not decline that it reveals but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
James A. Garfield
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[highlight-text]Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval instead of as a merely descriptive term cannot be adult themselves.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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[highlight-text]Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Well enough for old folks to rise early because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]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.
Fay Weldon
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I don't know how old I am because the goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.
Satchel Paige
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[highlight-text]Few women I fear have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[highlight-text]The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Study until twenty-five investigation until forty profession until sixty at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Sir William Osier
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[highlight-text]Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]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.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]My mental hands were empty and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.
Ian Fleming
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[highlight-text]He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]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.
Jane Harrison
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Lydia Maria Child
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[highlight-text]The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off and we fly away.
Bible
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: 'The work is done.'
Oliver Wendell Holmes