Age Quotes

"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age."

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

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

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

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."

"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."

"Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light."

"I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless."

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

"Adults are obsolete children."

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."

"There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."

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

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

"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."

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

"Old age is no place for sissies."

"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old."