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Age Quotes


Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Harold Coffin
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
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Bob Hope
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Doris Day
No man is ever old enough to know better.

Holbrook Jackson
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
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Ira Gershwin
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Emily Dickinson
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles de Gaulle
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Louis Kronenberger
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Golda Meir
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Theodore Roosevelt
Old age is no place for sissies.

Bette Davis
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

James Thurber
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Confucius
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
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Doug Larson