“Come, my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
AdventureNever Too Late
Age Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · AGE
Age Quotes
Read 200 of the best age quotes about growing older, staying young and birthdays from Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Lucille Ball, George Burns and more.
“Something remains for us to do or dare; even the oldest tree some fruit may bear.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PurposeOld Age
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Mark Twain
“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.”Satchel Paige
Moving ForwardFunny
“I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.”
Bob Hope
Old AgeFunny
“You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.”
George Burns
Getting OlderFunny
“I must confess, I was born at a very early age.”Groucho Marx
“I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.”Ronald Reagan
WitYouth
“I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.”
Jeanne Calment
WrinklesFunny
“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
Coco Chanel
BeautyConfidence
“The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.”Carl Jung
MeaningLater Life
“Old age is life's parody.”
Simone de Beauvoir
Old AgeShort Quotes
“At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves.”
George Orwell
CharacterFifty
“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.”
Leon Trotsky
Old AgeSurprise
“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”
Ingrid Bergman
Getting OlderPerspective
“Age is a relative matter. If you continue to work and to absorb the beauty in the world about you, you find that age does not necessarily mean getting old.”
Pablo Casals
“The years teach much which the days never know.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
ExperienceYears
“Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youthful HeartSpirit
“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age.”Plato
CalmHappiness
“A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.”
Francis Bacon
“Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.”
Malcolm Forbes
RetirementWork
“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-Frédéric Amiel
WisdomGrowing Old
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable.”
Victor Hugo
GraceWrinkles
“What one wishes in youth, one has in abundance in old age.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
WishesOld Age
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
Robert Frost