Age Quotes

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.

As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

Every man who has lived his life to the full should by the time his senior years are reached have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.

For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old but more like ourselves

Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.

If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.

I have learned little from the years that fly but I have wrung the colour from the years.

I can't tell you his age but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.

Enjoy how sweet how thoughtful how kind I'm being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it's back to the same old crap.

As one cat said to another: Birthdays are like fur balls - the more you have the more you gag.

She claims she just turned thirty but it must have been a U-turn!

She's not pushing forty she's dragging it.

Looking fifty is great - if you're sixty.

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.

For weeks I've been telling him not to buy anything for my birthday and he still forgot to bring me something.

The age of some women is like the speedometer on a used car - you know it's set back but you don't know how far.

What can you say when your husband says: 'You can't expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older."

Pushing fifty is exercise enough.

After thirty a body has a mind of its own.

Of all the things I miss the thing I miss the most is my mind.

My health is good it's my age that's bad.

I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? . . . Amazed!

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

He's so old his social security number is two digits.

Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

When I think of my dad as a little boy I tend to think of him in black and white.

I'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight.

Try to accept each other for what you are and don't point out the fact that the hair he's losing on his head is now growing out of his nose - and his ears.

Middle age is when you have met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else and usually is.

Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places.

The secret to longevity is to keep breathing.

People who have the most birthdays live the longest.

I have everything I had twenty years ago only it's all a little bit lower.

I may be forty but every morning when I get up I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately there's never one around.