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
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
Margaret Mead
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
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Gene Fowler
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis
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 believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot
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
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
Richard O'Brien
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 the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Pope Paul VI
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
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