Age Quotes

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.

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.