1,058 Quotes Regarding Age


Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
Pierre Corneille

I don't want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
Christine Lahti

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

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck

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

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day

No man is ever old enough to know better.
Holbrook Jackson

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

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Beverly Sills

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. Priestley

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank A. Clark

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Max Lerner

I'm not afraid of aging.
Shelley Duvall

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Gene Fowler

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Knut Hamsun

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher