Age Quotes

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

~ Plato

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

An old codger rampant and still learning.

~ Aldous Huxley

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

~ George Santayana

The arctic loneliness of age.

~ S. Weir Mitchell

When pain ends gain ends too.

~ Robert Browning

No gains without pains.

~ Adlai Stevenson

Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

~ Tom Stoppard

When I was very young I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good and equally good. That however was really laziness. Now thank goodness I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

~ G. B. Stern

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but merely being kept alive against one's will.

~ Malcolm Cowley

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

~ Dagobert Runes

Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.

~ Bible

I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

~ Thomas A. Edison

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

~ John Burroughs

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

~ T. S. Eliot

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

~ Jean Paul Richter

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Yes I'm 68 but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the prime of my life. Retire? Retire to what?

~ W. A. C. Bennett

Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.

~ Ogden Nash

As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.

~ John Knox

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

~ Anonymous

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

~ Jonathan Swift

Every man who has lived his life to the full should by the time his senior years are reached have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.

~ Clarence Randall

For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

~ Hasidic Saying

My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.

~ George Burns

Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.

~ William Shakespeare

It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.

~ Sandy Wilson

Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.

~ August Strindberg

If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

~ Malcolm Cowley

I have learned little from the years that fly but I have wrung the colour from the years.

~ Frances Pollock

I can't tell you his age but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.

~ Milton Berle

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.

~ Jacob Braude