Famous Quotes about Age and Aging (402 Quotations)

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.