Age Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

200 Age Quotes
“I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.”
Liv Tyler Quotes
“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 Quotes
“You 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.”
Judith Viorst Quotes
“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.”
Pope Paul VI Quotes
“Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.”
Bill Vaughn Quotes
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”
Francois Voltaire Quotes
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
“There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.”
Fay Weldon Quotes
“The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.”
Bob Wells Quotes
“Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.”
Margaret Willour Quotes
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Jeanne Moreau Quotes
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
“The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.”
Hume Cronyn Quotes
“I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.”
William Ernest Hocking Quotes
“Years and sins are always more than owned.”
Italian Proverb Quotes
“No man is ever old enough to know better.”
Holbrook Jackson Quotes
“A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”
Thomas B. Aldrich Quotes
“Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.”
Sebastian Trabish Quotes
“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 Frederic Amiel Quotes
“I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.”
Josh Billings Quotes
“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.”
Daniel Francois Esprit Auber Quotes
“The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.”
J. F. Boyse Quotes
“The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!"”
Dore Schary Quotes
“I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.”
Rita Mae Brown Quotes