“Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.”
Samuel Ullman
WonderYouthful Heart
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.
“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”
Samuel Ullman
FaithConfidence
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
LifeLiving Fully
“Acquire in youth what may restore the damage of old age.”Leonardo da Vinci
YouthPreparation
“Education is the best provision for old age.”Aristotle
EducationOld Age
“Old age is an incurable disease.”
Seneca
Old AgeShort Quotes
“Old age is a shipwreck.”
Charles de Gaulle
Old AgeShort Quotes
“A man is not an elder because his head is grey; his age may be ripe, but he is called old in vain.”Buddha
WisdomGrey Hair
“As the embodied soul passes in this body through childhood, youth and old age, so it passes into another body; the wise are not deluded by this.”
The Bhagavad Gita
SoulLife Stages
“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”
Confucius
YouthRespect
“The soul of a three-year-old lasts until a hundred.”
Japanese Proverb
ChildhoodCharacter
“When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.”
Amadou Hampâté Bâ
EldersWisdom
“Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.”
Joan Collins
FunnyMindset
“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”
Chili Davis
FunnyGrowing Up
“It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
Tom Robbins
ChildhoodHappiness
“All children, except one, grow up.”
J. M. Barrie
ChildhoodGrowing Up
“It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll
GrowthThe Past
“Adults are obsolete children.”
Dr. Seuss
ChildhoodFunny
“All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
ChildhoodWonder
“Old age is not a disease; it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”
Maggie Kuhn
StrengthOld Age
“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”
Madeleine L'Engle
Getting OlderMemories
“One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”
Edith Wharton
CuriosityHappiness
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
Emily Dickinson
RenewalYouthful Heart
“Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time.”
Florida Scott-Maxwell
Old AgeSurprise
“This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?”
Gloria Steinem
FortyFunny