Quotes
Quotes about Age
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!"
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
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.
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
