Top 192 Age Quotes
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
- Aristotle
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
- Bill Cosby
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
- Francis Bacon
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
All diseases run into one, old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
- Andrew Carnegie
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- C. S. Lewis
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
- Kurt Vonnegut
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost
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