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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of ...
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Maurice Chevalier
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never ...
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Robert Frost
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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Elizabeth Barrett Brownin
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to incr...
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Bette Midler
Age considers; youth ventures.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ...
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Jim Fiebig
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
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Tom Stoppard
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't mat...
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Mark Twain
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All...
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Don Marquis
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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Albert Camus
All diseases run into one, old age.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she g...
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Agatha Christie
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone ...
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Henry Ford
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I...
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of ...
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Margaret Mead
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was...
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Jules Feiffer
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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Aristotle
Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach...
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Lionel Kauffman
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
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George Bernard Shaw
First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull...
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Leo Rosenberg
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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Victor Hugo
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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Robert Browning
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no tim...
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Andre Maurois
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
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Gene Fowler
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is...
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C. S. Lewis
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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Satchel Paige
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're ...
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Liv Tyler
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in...
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T. S. Eliot
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's ti...
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Bob Hope
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from mo...
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William Ernest Hocking
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of ...
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Lauren Bacall
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older th...
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Francis Bacon
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old ye...
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Leo Rosten
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You...
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Henri Frederic Amiel
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We ar...
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Knut Hamsun
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the yea...
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Pope Paul VI
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us...
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Beverly Sills
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut y...
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Sam Ewing
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
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Brigitte Bardot
It takes a long time to become young.
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Pablo Picasso
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel t...
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Anatole France
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Truman Capote
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin eac...
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Bill Cosby
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
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Mary Schmich
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
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Jules Feiffer
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up w...
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Harold Coffin
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or...
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Don Marquis
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
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Bob Hope
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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Doris Day
No man is ever old enough to know better.
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Holbrook Jackson
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by de...
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Samuel Ullman
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
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Henry David Thoreau
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from t...
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Ira Gershwin
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Emily Dickinson
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them...
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Charles De Gaulle
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at l...
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Louis Kronenberger
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, th...
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Golda Meir
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got t...
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Theodore Roosevelt
Old age is no place for sissies.
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Bette Davis
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a ...
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James Thurber
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
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Cato
Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
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Margaret Willour
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are ...
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Confucius
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A lif...
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Dwight L. Moody
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records ...
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Calista Flockhart
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - the...
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Martin Buxbaum
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urg...
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Doug Larson
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one...
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Leon Edel
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well ...
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Paul Tillich
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of ol...
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Logan Pearsall Smith
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also ...
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Jerry M. Wright
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't ...
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Doris Lessing
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting ...
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Joan Collins
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that yo...
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Doris Day
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form...
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Bob Wells
The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Casey Stengel
The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more ...
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Hume Cronyn
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our you...
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Mignon McLaughlin
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
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John Glenn
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old...
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John B. Priestly
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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Fay Weldon
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but the...
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reveren...
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Amos Bronson Alcott
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
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John Burroughs
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the min...
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Alan Bleasdale
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high scho...
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Kurt Vonnegut
We are only young once. That is all society can stand.
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Bob Bowen
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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J. B. Priestley
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of t...
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Pearl S. Buck
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helpi...
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Frank A. Clark
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a ...
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Voltaire
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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Sinclair Lewis
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her ...
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Lenore Coffee
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reve...
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Muriel Spark
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspea...
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Victor Hugo
When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.
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Marty Bucella
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you wil...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
When you become senile, you won't know it.
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Bill Cosby
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel ol...
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Amos Bronson Alcott
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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Mark Twain
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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George Burns
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
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Bonnie Prudden
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, t...
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Judith Viorst
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
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Bob Hope
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have...
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Harrison Ford
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
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Dorothy Fulheim
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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George Bernard Shaw
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
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Euripides
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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Stanislaw J. Lec
Youth is wasted on the young.
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George Bernard Shaw
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle...
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Bill Vaughn
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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Herbert Asquith