Age Quotes

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

Cornelius Otis Skinner

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Elizabeth Arden

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Madeleine L'Engle

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain

A woman has the age she deserves.

Coco Chanel

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Doug Larson

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.

Nikita Ivanovich Panin

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

Antoine de Saint-ExupÈry

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.

Daniel Defoe

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Jean Rhys

Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.

Unknown

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Bette Davis

All diseases run into one, old age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

Robert Quillen

Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.

Michel de Montaigne

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Tom Wilson