Quote: To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
Quote: While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
Quote: I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
Quote: Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Author: Aristotle
Quote: Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Author: Herbert Asquith
Quote: I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
Author: Lady Nancy Astor
Quote: I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Author: Lauren Bacall
Quote: I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Author: Sir Francis Bacon
Quote: Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Quote: It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Author: Brigitte Bardot
Quote: To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Author: Alan Bleasdale
Quote: When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.
Author: Marty Bucella
Quote: 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.
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Quote: You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
Author: George Burns
Quote: To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
Author: John Burroughs
Quote: Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Author: Martin Buxbaum
Quote: Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Author: Albert Camus
Quote: 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.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Quote: 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.
Author: Confucius
Quote: When you become senile, you won't know it.
Author: Bill Cosby
Quote: The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Author: Hume Cronyn
Quote: The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Author: Doris Day
Quote: 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.
Author: Leon Edel
Quote: Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Author: Cato the Elder
Quote: 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.
Author: T. S. Eliot
Quote: All diseases run into one, old age.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Author: Euripides
Quote: Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Author: Jules Feiffer
Quote: Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Author: Jim Fiebig
Quote: Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Quote: So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
Author: Calista Flockhart
Quote: Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Author: Henry Ford
Quote: You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Author: Harrison Ford
Quote: He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Author: Gene Fowler
Quote: It was one of the liest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
Author: Anatole France
Quote: Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Author: Dorothy Fulheim
Quote: Old age is a shipwreck.
Author: Charles De Gaulle
Quote: Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Author: Ira Gershwin
Quote: There is still no cure for the common birthday.
Author: John Glenn
Quote: In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Author: Knut Hamsun
Quote: find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
Author: William Ernest Hocking
Quote: Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quote: Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Author: Bob Hope
Quote: You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Author: Bob ope
Quote: I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Author: Bob Hope
Quote: Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Author: Victor Hugo
Quote: When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Author: Victor Hugo
Quote: Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
Author: Lionel Kauffman
Quote: Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Author: Louis Kronenberger
Quote: The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Author: Doug Larson
Quote: Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Author: Stanislaw J. Lec
Quote: The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Author: Doris Lessing
Quote: Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Quote: How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Author: C. S. Lewis
Quote: Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Author: Don Marquis
Quote: Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Author: Don Marquis
Quote: There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Author: Mignon McLaughlin
Quote: As long as any thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Author: Margaret Mead
Quote: Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Author: Margaret Mead
Quote: Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Author: Golda Meir
Quote: After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Author: Bette Midler
Quote: 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.
Author: Dwight L. Moody
Quote: How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Author: Satchel Paige
Quote: It takes a long time to become young.
Author: Pablo Picasso
Quote: We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
Author: J. B. Priestley
Quote: There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.
Author: John B. Priestly
Quote: You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Author: Bonnie Prudden
Quote: The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Author: Monty Python
Quote: Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Quote: Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Quote: I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
Author: Leo Rosten
Quote: Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Quote: Youth is wasted on the young.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Quote: In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Author: Beverly Sills
Quote: The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the .
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
Quote: When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Author: Muriel Spark
Quote: The trick is growing up without growing old.
Author: Casey Stengel
Quote: Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Author: Tom Stoppard
Quote: Age considers; youth ventures.
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Quote: None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote: Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Author: James Thurber
Quote: The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Author: Paul Tillich
Quote: Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Author: Mark Twain
Quote: Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Author: Mark Twain
Quote: I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Author: Liv Tyler
Quote: 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.
Author: Samuel Ullman
Quote: Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Author: Bill Vaughn
Quote: In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Author: Pope Paul VI
Quote: You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Author: Judith Viorst
Quote: What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Author: Voltaire
Quote: True is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Quote: There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Author: Fay Weldon
Quote: The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Author: Bob Wells
Quote: Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
Author: Margaret Willour
Quote: How young can you die of old age?
Author: Steven Wright
Quote: The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
Author: Jerry M. Wright
Quote: YOU LIVE AND LEARN, THEN DIE AND FORGET, SO WHATS THE POINT IN LIVING?
Author: Melon Head