Age Quotes, Sayings about getting Old

Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read - Alonso of Aragon.

Does age poison us, or do we poison age? - Astrid Alauda.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young - Benjamin Franklin.

Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese - Billie Burke.

It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen - Brigitte Bardot.

Age attacks when we least expect it - Carrie Latet.

Age is like the newest version of a software - it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had - Carrie Latet.

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

A woman has the age she deserves - Coco Chanel.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves - C.S. Lewis.

Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay - Daniel Defoe.

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.

There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow - Edith Wharton.

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

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age - Florida Scott-Maxwell.

I grow more intense as I age - Florida Scott-Maxwell.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children - George Bernard Shaw.

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

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom - H.L. Mencken.

Age swallows our childhood - Jareb Teague.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something - Jean Rostand.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It’s more often a succession of jerks - Jean Rhys.

Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age - Jeanne Moreau.

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone - Jim Fiebig.

Age merely shows what children we remain - Johann Wolfgang von.

First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful - Lady Diana Cooper.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man - Leon Trotsky.

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been - Madeleine L’Engle.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter - Mark Twain.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been - Mark Twain.

Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves - Martin H. Fischer.

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear - Mignon McLaughlin.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won’t get run over - Miriam Makeba.

Age is a prison from which we cannot escape - Morrow Bourne.

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind - Mortimer Collins.

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.

Live your life and forget your age - Norman Vincent Peale.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young - Oscar Wilde.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot - Oscar Wilde.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea - Pearl S. Buck.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you - Ravensara Noite.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be - Robert Browning.

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

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 - Samuel Ullman.

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

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself - Tom Wilson.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man - Trotsky.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody - Willa Cather.

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