Quotes
Quotes about Age
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.
Age is only a number.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.
Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.
If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.
Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.
Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.
