Age Quotes, Sayings about getting old
+1There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
- John Mortimer
+1To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
- Billie Burke
+1In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.
- Nikita Ivanovich Panin
+1Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
- Don Marquis
+1The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
- Helen Rowland
+1In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
- Knut Hamsun
+1The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
- Jean Kerr
+1We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1In 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
+1If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
- James A. Garfield
+1Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
- Ira Gershwin
+1There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
- Martin Buxbaum
+1O, it is excellent Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
- Maggie Kuhn
+1You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
- Fay Weldon
+1I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
- Voltaire
+1There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age – I missed it coming and going.
- J.B. Priestly
+1I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
- T.S. Eliot
+1The 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
+1For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.
- Richard Needham
+1Old 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
+1It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
- Virginia Woolf
+1Age–that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
- Ambrose Bierce