Age Quotes, Sayings about getting old - Page 2
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
- Jean Rostand
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
- Don Marquis
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
- Mark Twain
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- Walt Whitman
Never too old to learn.
- Latin Proverb
Everyone is the age of their heart.
- Guatemalan proverb
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
- Antoine
Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up.
- John Wagner
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
- Douglas MacArthur
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
- Thomas Dekker
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Does age poison us, or do we poison age?
- Astrid Alauda
Age … is a matter of feeling, not of years.
- George William Curtis
The person of wisdom is the person of years.
- Edward
The years teach much which the days never knew.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition.
- Arnold Glasow
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
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?
- Satchel Paige
Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it.
- Chinese Proverb
When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.
- William J. Clinton
When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.
- Marty Bucella
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
- Andre Maurois
The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.
- Judith Regan
The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.
- Joan Collins
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
- Oscar Wilde
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
- Caryn Leschen
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
- Henri Amiel
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
- Robert Southey
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
- Tom Wilson
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
- Jerry M. Wright
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
- Doris Day


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