Age Quotes

There is no shortage of whoppers on the subject of age.
The list goes on forever, from every conceivable nook in
the subterranean mythos of gobbledegook.
These should inspire a moderate notion of lassitude.

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.
Maurice Chevalier

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

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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

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

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

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have.
The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

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

Economists report that a college education adds many
thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -
which he then spends sending his son to college.
Bill Vaughan

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo

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

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age.
You're young enough to get away with things,
but you're old enough, too.
Liv Tyler

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon.
That's when it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope

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.
William Ernest Hocking

I think your whole life shows in your face and you
should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always
15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon

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

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

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

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

Life is a moderately good play with a badly
written third act.
Truman Capote

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

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Mary Schmich