Age Quotes To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.     Thomas Bailey Aldrich In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.     Roger Allen You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.     Anouk Aimee Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.     Aristotle The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.     Lucille Ball People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.     Russell Baker To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.     Bernard M. Baruch As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.     Robert Benchley To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.     Karl von Bonstetten Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.     George Burns I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.     George Burns Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.     Lillian Carter I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.     Pablo Casals Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.     Maurice Chevalier I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.     Agatha Christie Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.     Cyril Connolly As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.     Ralph Waldo Emerson Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.     Marilyn Ferguson Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.     Benjamin Franklin Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.     Marshall Ganz Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.     Ellen Glasgow A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.     Oliver Wendell Holmes To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.     Oliver Wendell Holmes A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.     Homer Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.     Homer The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.     Robinson Jeffers No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.     Lynn Johnston The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.     Doug Larson The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.     Doris Lessing Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.     Groucho Marx There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.     Carol Matthau When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.     W. Somerset Maugham The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.     H. L. Mencken He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.     Plato An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.     Plutarch You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.     Michael Pritchard Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.     Miriam Makeba Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.     Ogden Nash I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.     Louise Nevelson The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful... <     Sharon Olds About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.     Gloria Pitzer The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.     Saki It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.     George Sand Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.     George Santayana I grow more intense as I age.     Florida Scott-Maxwell The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.     Logan Pearsall Smith With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?     Elizabeth Cady Stanton I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.     Tom Stoppard Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.     Abigail Van Buren I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'     Earl Warren You're never too old to become younger.     Mae West I am not young enough to know everything.     Oscar Wilde To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.     Oscar Wilde The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.     Alfred North Whitehead The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.     Frank Lloyd Wright Previous Subject - Advice | Next Subject - Agreement