Age Quotes

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

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

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

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

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

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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.

Adults are obsolete children.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

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

Old age is a shipwreck.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

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

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

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

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

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

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

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

At my age flowers scare me.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

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

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

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

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

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

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

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

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

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.

Old age is no place for sissies.

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

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

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

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

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

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.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

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

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

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

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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!

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

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

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

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

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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

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.

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

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

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

We are always the same age inside.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

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.

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

Age considers; youth ventures.

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

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

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

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

Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

If youth knew; if age could.

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.

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