Age Quotes

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

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Helen Hayes

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

George Burns

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

Betty Friedan

Old age is no place for sissies.

Bette Davis

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

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

James Broughton

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

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

Victor Hugo

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

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

Agatha Christie

Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Marvin Davis

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Casey Stengel

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

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

George Sand

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Pope John XXIII

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

Mark Twain

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Sophia Loren

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams

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

Robert Frost

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Jules Renard

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

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Kevin Spacey

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Sophocles

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

Lucille Ball

A grownup is a child with layers on.

Woody Harrelson

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

Lauren Bacall

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

Maurice Chevalier

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

Golda Meir

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Jonathan Swift

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

Olivia Munn

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Spark

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

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

Francis Bacon

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Thomas Browne

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

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

Harrison Ford

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

Doris Day

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

Louis Kronenberger

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Brigitte Bardot

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

Bob Hope

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

Fay Weldon

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

Hugh Hefner

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain

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

Harold Coffin

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

Albert Camus

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

Katharine Graham

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

Warren Beatty

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Max Lerner