Age Quotes

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

I admire and respect those unique and positive individuals who can "age without aging." The number of times a heart beats is not as important as its tempo and rhythm.- Craig D. Slovak

There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.- Author Unknown

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

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age — I missed it coming and going.- J.B. Priestly

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.- Maurice Chevalier

Any man of forty who is endowed with moderate intelligence has seen—in the light of the uniformity of nature—the entire past and future.- Marcus Aurelius

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage — so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.- Douglas MacArthur

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

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

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

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.- Beverly Sills

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

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

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.- B. F. Skinner

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

You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired.- Unknown

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

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.- John Fischer

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

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.- Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.- Doris Lessing

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

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

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

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.- John Ruskin

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.- Rosalyn S. Yalow

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.- Charles Dickens

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.- Ogden Nash

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.- Jim Fiebig

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.- Herman Melville

Where did the time go? Yesterday, I was a girl, and today, I suddenly find myself in the autumn of my years with the cold winds of winter breathing down my neck.- Peggy Toney Horton

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.- Frederick Jackson Turner

Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.- J.A. Froude

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.- Bernard Baruch

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.- E.B. White

We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.- Guy Gavriel Kay

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.- Jerry M. Wright

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.- Anjelica Huston