Good quotes about Age: Some of the best great quotes about Age

Good quotes about Age: Some of the best great quotes about Age

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

A woman’s always younger than a man of equal years. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. – Robert Browning

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

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. – Martin Buxbaum

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 A. 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

When you become senile, you won’t know it. – Bill Cosby

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. – 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 really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it. – Doris Day

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. – Doris Day

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

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

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

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

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? – Jules Feiffer

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

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

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

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

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled. – Gene Fowler

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable. – Anatole France

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

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

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap. – Bob Hope

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

No man is ever old enough to know better. – Holbrook Jackson

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

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

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

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