1,058 Quotes Regarding Age


Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughan

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

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier

A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon

Age considers youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea Ballou