Good Age quotes: Best famous quotes about Age
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. – Stanislaw Lec
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. – Doris Lessing
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. – Sinclair Lewis
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. – C. S. Lewis
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. – Don Marquis
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. – Don Marquis
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. – Andre Maurois
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. – Mignon McLaughlin
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
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. – Golda Meir
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. – Bette Midler
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. – Dwight L. Moody
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. – Friedrich Nietzsche
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? – Satchel Paige
It takes a long time to become young. – Pablo Picasso
We pay when old for the excesses of youth. – J. B. Priestley
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age – I missed it coming and going. – John B. Priestly
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. – Theodore Roosevelt
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I’m not old yet! – Leo Rosten
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. – Mary Schmich
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. – George Bernard Shaw
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. – George Bernard Shaw
Youth is wasted on the young. – George Bernard Shaw
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. – Beverly Sills
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. – Logan P. Smith
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. – Muriel Spark
The trick is growing up without growing old. – Casey Stengel
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. – Tom Stoppard
Age considers; youth ventures. – Rabindranath Tagore
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. – Henry David Thoreau
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. – James Thurber
The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements (as well as one’s deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. – Paul Tillich
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. – Mark Twain
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. – Mark Twain
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
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. – Samuel Ullman
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. – Bill Vaughn
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. – Bill Vaughn
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. – Bill Vaughn
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. – Bill Vaughn
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong. – Bill Vaughn
Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. – Bill Vaughn
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election. – Bill Vaughn
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. – Bill Vaughn
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. – Bill Vaughn
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas. – Bill Vaughn
Muscles come and go; flab lasts. – Bill Vaughn
It’s hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn’t own water skis or a snorkel. – Bill Vaughn
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. – Bill Vaughn
The tax collector must love poor people – he’s creating so many of them. – Bill Vaughn
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. – Bill Vaughn
I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant. – Bill Vaughn
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 Vaughn
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. – Bill Vaughn
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. – Bill Vaughn
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
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. – Judith Viorst
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. – Voltaire
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. – Kurt Vonnegut
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. – Fay Weldon
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. – Bob Wells
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