Age & Aging Quotes

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost

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

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

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
Jerry M. Wright

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

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

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

All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Jules Feiffer

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Cato

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

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

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
Bill Vaughan

Do not regret growing older.  It is a privilege denied to many.
Author Unknown

The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau

The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel

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

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
R. Palmer: Age

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Lec

We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
John W. Turk

In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
E.B. White

I was always taught to respect my elders and I’ve now reached the age when I don’t have anybody to respect.
George Burns

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

Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
Homer

Everyone is the age of their heart.
Guatemalan Proverb

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

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