Quotes About Age

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Age

Quotations & Citations:

I am not young enough to know everything.
~ Oscar Wilde

 

 

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

 

~ Doug Larson

 

 

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
~ Mark Twain

 

 

Voltaire

 

 

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

 

~ Leroy “Satchel” Paige

 

 

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
~ C.S. Lewis

 

 

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

 

 

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

 

 

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

 

~ Douglas MacArthur

 

Kurt Vonnegut

 

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
~ Herbert Hoover

 

 

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

 

~ Chili Davis

 

 

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

 

 

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

 

James Cameron

 

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
~ H.L. Mencken

 

 

The years teach much which the days never knew.

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
~ Edgar Allan Poe

 

Dylan Thomas

 

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

 

~ George Bernard Shaw

 

 

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
~ Oscar Wilde

 

 

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

 

~ John Mortimer

 

Marilyn Monroe

 

Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

 

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.

 

~ Charles Dickens

 

 

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

 

~ Robert Southey, The Doctor

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

 

~ John Barrymore

 

 

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

 

 

Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
~ Charles M. Schulz

 

 

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?

 

~ Satchel Paige

 

Nicholas Sparks

 

I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
~ Virginia Woolf

 

 

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

 

~ Bob Hope

 

 

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
~ George Burns

 

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

 

 

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

 

~ Caryn Leschen

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

~ Victor Hugo

 

Memories warm you up from the inside.  But they also tear you apart.

 

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
~ Sherman Alexie

 

 

Everyone is the age of their heart.

 

~ Guatemalan Proverb

 

 

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
~ George Orwell

 

 

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

 

~ Dorothy Fulheim

 

If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree.

 

Age is a terrible thief. Just when you’re getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.
~ Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

 

 

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

 

~ Tom Stoppard

 

 

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
~ Madeleine L’Engle

 

 

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.

 

~ Judith Regan

 

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

 

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
~ Milan Kundera

 

 

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

 

~ Mark Twain

 

 

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

 

 

It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.

 

~ Brigitte Bardot

 

 

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
~ Garrison Keillor

 

 

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

 

~ Robert Browning

 

 

Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
~ Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

 

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give

 

 

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

 

~ Herbert Asquith

 

 

It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.
~ Andy Rooney

 

 

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

 

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

 

Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

 

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
~ Hayao Miyazaki

 

 

The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.
~ Edmund Waller

 

Life is not happening to you.  Life is responding to you.

 

His hair isn’t turning gray—it’s turning silver, and it’s going up in value. Aging is the best hedge against an inflationary fiat currency.
~ Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

 

 

As you get older, you don’t get wiser. You get irritable.
~ Doris Lessing

 

 

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
~ Mark Twain

 

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit

 

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

 

~ Martin Buxbaum

 

 

Old age ain’t no place for sissies.
~ Bette Davis

 

 

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

 

 

Thirty–the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

 

 

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

 

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

 

By the time you’re thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

 

 

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 Amiel

 

 

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
~ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

 

 

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

 

~ Saint Aurelius Augustine

 

 

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
~ Karl Lagerfeld

 

 

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

 

~ Charles Dickens

 

 

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
~ Oscar Wilde

 

 

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

 

~ Charles Lamb

 

 

I’m gonna enjoy being old I think I’ll be awesome at it.
~ Craig Ferguson

 

 

Life is one long process of getting tired.

 

~ Samuel Butler

 

 

Twenty-three is old. It’s almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.
~ Jessica Simpson

 

 

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

 

~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac

 

 

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.
~ Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

 

 

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

 

~ John M. Wagner

 

 

When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.
~ Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot

 

 

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

 

~ Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.

 

 

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.
~ George Sand

 

 

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

 

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

 

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

 

~ Ogden Nash

 

 

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.
~ Lyman Bryson

 

 

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

 

~ Truman Capote

 

 

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Prose and Poetry

 

 

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

 

~ Eddie Murphy

 

 

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
~ Alex Shakar

 

 

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

 

~ Jean Rostand

 

 

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.
~ Cindy Crawford

 

 

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.

 

~ Liz Smith

 

 

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
~ Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

 

 

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

 

~ Emily Dickinson

 

 

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
~ Michael Pritchard

 

 

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

 

~ Daniel Defoe

 

 

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

 

Age is a prison from which we cannot escape
but only by death,
into another world.
~ Morrow Bourne

 

 

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.
~ Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

 

 

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
~ William Butler Yeats

 

 

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.
~ Charles Frazier

 

 

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

 

~ Arnold Palmer

 

 

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
~ David Gemmell

 

 

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.
~ Neil Gaiman

 

 

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

 

~ Jennifer Yane

 

 

I am older than your age and younger than your body.
~ Santosh Kalwar