Age Quotes

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

The older I get, the more I feel
almost beautiful...

As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

I grow more intense as I age.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

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

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

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

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be 'that stabbin' Dilbert guy.'

Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young?

It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume.

There is nothing better than birthday cake. It's like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting.

It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

People age even when you're not looking.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

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

To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgement.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

I'm having a glorious old age. One of my greatest delights is that I have outlived most of my opposition.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

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

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

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

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

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

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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.

Half of maturity consists of knowing when and how to be immature.

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.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

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

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

One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

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

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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

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

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

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

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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

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

Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

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.

Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.

The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.

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.

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

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.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Anyone can get old, all you have to do is live long enough.

Aging is mandatory. Maturity is optional.

It's not how old you are, it's how hard you work at it.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

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

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

You're never too old to become younger.

When they tell me I'm too old to do something, I attempt it immediately.

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

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

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

I am not young enough to know everything.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.