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

"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

"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

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

Jim Fiebig, Businessman

"A man growing old becomes a child again"

Sophocles, Author

"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

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

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"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 merely shows what children we remain"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

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

Voltaire, Writer

"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

"All diseases run into one, old age"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

Aristotle, Philosopher

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Every man over forty is a scoundrel"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"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

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

Mark Twain, Author

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

C. S. Lewis, Author

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

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

Bill Cosby, Comedian

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

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"Old age is no place for sissies"

Bette Davis, Actress

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

Theodore Roosevelt, President

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

Andre Maurois, Writer

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

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"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

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Age is how we determine how valuable you are"

Jane Elliot, Actress

"I'm not afraid of aging"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

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

Don Marquis, Journalist

"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

"When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality"

Muriel Spark, Novelist

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

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

Betty Friedan, Activist

"He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled"

Gene Fowler, Journalist

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

Beverly Sills, Musician

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

Harold Coffin

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