Quotes About Age

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


Middle age is the time when you think that in a week or two you'll feel good as ever.  ~ Don Marquis


By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.  ~ Francois Mauriac


One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.  ~ Oscar Wilde


The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.  ~ Lucille Ball


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


Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.  ~ Muhammad Ali


Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.  ~ Leon Trotsky


Don't think of it as wrinkles. Think of ot as relaxed-fit skin.  ~ Cathy Crimmins


You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.  ~ George Bernard Shaw


Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.  ~ Muriel Spark


When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.  ~ George Burns


Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.  ~ Albert Einstein


Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.  ~ Bob Hope


No one is ever old enough to know better.  ~ Holbrook Jackson


Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.  ~ Natalie Clifford Barney


It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.  ~ Jules Renard


It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.  ~ Georges Courteline


None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.  ~ Henry David Thoreau


Life is available to anyone no matter what age. All you have to do is grab it.  ~ Art Carney


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


By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.  ~ George Burns


Youth is wasted on the young.  ~ George Bernard Shaw


Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.  ~ Golda Meir


Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.  ~ Caryn Leschen


After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.  ~ Cynthia Ozick


Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.  ~ Ausonius


It is not how old you are, but how you are old.  ~ Marie Dressler


You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~ Ogden Nash


We turn not older with years, but newer every day.  ~ Emily Dickinson


Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.  ~ Mark Twain


Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~ Jennifer Yane


Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~ Chili Davis


Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.  ~ Maya Angelou


For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.  ~ Margaret Atwood


Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not commited.  ~ Anthony Powell


We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves  ~ Mary Lamberton Becker


The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.  ~ Joan Collins


A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.  ~ John Barrymore


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


To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.  ~ Bernard Baruch


When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.  ~ Mark Twain


No wise man ever wished to be younger.  ~ Jonathan Swift


A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.  ~ Francis Bacon


Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.  ~ Charles M. Schulz


The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.  ~ Lucille Ball


I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.  ~ Bernard Baruch


She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.  ~ Anita Brookner


Old age ain't no place for sissies.  ~ Bette Davis


We are always the same age inside. ~ Gertrude Stein


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


Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt


Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.  ~ Mark Twain


Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.  ~ Jeanne Moreau


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