Age Quotes and Sayings


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

A lady of a ‘certain age’, which means
Certainly aged.
Lord Byron

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

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

A man is as old as he’s feeling,
A woman as old as she looks.
Mortimer Collins

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

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
Oscar Wilde

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.
Art Linkletter

A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
Groucho Marx

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

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

The years teach much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.
Francis Bacon

According to the doctors, I’m only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.
Federico Fellini

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
Pearl Buck

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
Jean Anouilh

All that the young can do for the old is to shock them and keep them up to date.
George Bernard Shaw

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
John Mortimer

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier

An adult is one who has ceased to grow vertically but not horizontally.
Anonymous

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Bible: Genesis

As we get older we do not get any younger.
Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five,
And this time last year I was fifty-four,
And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.
Henry Reed

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
George Orwell

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live…[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Julius burger
Albert Einstein

At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
Jules Feiffer

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
Benjamin Franklin

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey

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

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

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

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