Quotes
Informative Quotes About Age
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
Minds ripen at very different ages.
Stevie Wonder
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
George Burns
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.
Ogden Nash
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel
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
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
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
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Helen Hayes
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank A. Clark
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
Age is how we determine how valuable you are.
Jane Elliot
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.
Dwight L. Moody
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Cesare Pavese
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
George Sand
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
James Thurber
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
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