Age Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

200 Age Quotes
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”
Cato The Elder Quotes
“The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.”
John Barrymore Quotes
“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.”
Maurice Chevalier Quotes
“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.”
Lydia M. Child Quotes
“You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
Bob Hope Quotes
“Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.”
Daniel Defoe Quotes
“Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.”
Lawrence Durrell Quotes
“I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”
George Eliot Quotes
“Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.”
William Feather Quotes
“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.”
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”
James A. Garfield Quotes
“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.”
John Greier Quotes
“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.”
Eric Hoffer Quotes
“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
“At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.”
Elizabeth Jennings Quotes
“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”
Maggie Kuhn Quotes
“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”
Doris Lessing Quotes
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
Groucho Marx Quotes
“If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.”
Margaret Mead Quotes
“Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.”
Golda Meir Quotes
“Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!”
George Meredith Quotes
“We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.”
Stu Mittleman Quotes