Famous Age Quotes

"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end"

Cicero, Philosopher

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone"

Jim Fiebig, Businessman

"All diseases run into one, old age"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

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

Betty Friedan, Activist

"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"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

"Old age is no place for sissies"

Bette Davis, Actress

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

Sam Ewing, Athlete

"A man growing old becomes a child again"

Sophocles, Author

"Age merely shows what children we remain"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"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, Businessman

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

Agatha Christie, Writer

"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life"

Kitty O'Neill Collins, Politician

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

Harold Coffin

"As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage"

Frances Conroy, Actress

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

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

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

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

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

Voltaire, Writer

"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

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

Mark Twain, Author

"Every man over forty is a scoundrel"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Age considers; youth ventures"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

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

Robert Frost, Poet

"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough"

Don Marquis, Journalist

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

Theodore Roosevelt, President

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

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

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

Andre Maurois, Writer

"After thirty, a body has a mind of its own"

Bette Midler, Actress

"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived"

Knut Hamsun, Author

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