1,058 Quotes Regarding Age


I'm at that age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
George Burns

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle

Avarice 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.
Cicero

Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.
George Williams Curtis

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
John Denham

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli

You are young at any age if you're planning for tomorrow.
Anon.

Aging is bad, but consider the alternative.
Anon.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
Julia Ripley Dorr

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Tyron Edwards

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides

I know I'm going to get old and be one of those crazy women who sits on balconies and spits on people and screams, 'Get a haircut!' I know this, and I don't really fear it. I'd just like to move toward it with as much grace and dignity as possible.
Carrie Fisher

Adolescence: a stage between infancy and adultery.
Foolish Dictionary

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
James A. Garfield

How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease.
Oliver Goldsmith

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitima
Lady Nancy Astor

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.
Rex Harrison

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
William Hazlitt

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Joseph Heller