Age Quotes And Sayings

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“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
– Henry David Thoreau 

“Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. ”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life”
– Herbert Asquith

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” 
– Herbert Hoover

“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”
– Hosea Ballou

“There 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

“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” 
– J.K. Rowling

“Sometimes I get depressed about my age. In March I’ll be 26. If man weren’t measured in numbers, but rather letters, I’d be turning Z. And then I’d be dead.” 
– Jarod Kintz

“Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly.  It’s more often a succession of jerks.”
– Jean Rhys

“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.”
– Jean Rostand

“The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.”
– Jerry M. Wright

“Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.”
– Jim Fiebig

“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.” 
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
– John Barrymore

“What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.”
– John Fischer

“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”
– John Glenn

“There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.”
– John Mortimer

“Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.”
– John Wagner

“The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.”
– Judith Regan

“When you’re a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you’re older, it’s a straight part.”
– Laurence Olivier

“First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.”
– Leo Rosenberg

“Age is a question of mind over matter.  If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Leroy “Satchel” Paige

“One of the best parts of growing older?  You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.”
– Liz Smith

“There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.”
– Logan Pearsall Smith

“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“In my dreams, I never have an age.” 
– Madeleine L’Engle

“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero 

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.  It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”
– Mark Twain

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” 
– Mark Twain

“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.” 
– Martin Amis

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