Age Quotes

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

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

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

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.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

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.

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

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

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.

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 adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

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.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.