Age Quotes

“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”

“The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!”

Doris Day

“Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.”

Ogden Nash

“Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”

Franklin P. Adams

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If youth knew; if age could.”

Henri Estienne

“Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.”

“Certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many.”

“It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.”

Samuel Johnson

“Spring still makes spring in the mind, when sixty years are told.”

“The Child is father of the Man.”

William Wordsworth

“For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”

Jawaharlal Nehru

“Rare since ancient times is a man of seventy.”

Du Fu

“You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

Irish Proverb

“Old age to the unlearned is winter; to the learned, it is harvest time.”

Yiddish Proverb

“You can't teach an old dog new tricks.”

English Proverb

“There's no fool like an old fool.”

English Proverb

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”

Grandma Moses

“I am still learning.”

Michelangelo

“No one loves life like him that's growing old.”

Sophocles

“The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.”

Horace

“Time, the devourer of all things.”

Ovid

“Time flies, never to be recalled.”

Virgil

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

Elbert Hubbard