Age Quotes

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

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

We are always the same age inside.

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

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

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

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

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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