Age Quotes

“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.”

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”

J. M. Barrie

“We can't reach old age by another man's road.”

Mark Twain

“The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”

Mark Twain

“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”

“All would live long, but none would be old.”

“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions.”

Samuel Ullman

“For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Age considers; youth ventures.”

“At fifteen I set my heart on learning; at thirty I took my stand; at forty I came to be free from doubts; at fifty I understood the decree of Heaven; at sixty my ear was attuned; at seventy I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the line.”

Confucius

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”

Victor Hugo

“No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.”

Cicero

“Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it.”

Seneca

“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”

Michel de Montaigne

“Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true children still.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.”

“Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”

Jonathan Swift

“May you live all the days of your life.”

Jonathan Swift

“Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man.”

Lord Byron

“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”

Robert Louis Stevenson