Age Quotes

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

Mind, Matter, Issue

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

Life, Learning, Mind

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

Wrinkles, Smiles, Merely

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

Morning, School, True

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost

Birthday, Woman, Her

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Men, Attention, Older

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis

Great, Old, Prolonged

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius

Good, True, Old

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Enough, Old, Vice

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman

May, Give, Living

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

Best, Husband, Woman

All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old, Run, Diseases

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle

Old, Youth, Reproach

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Bill Cosby

Else, Coffee, Everyone

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon

Trust, Best, Friends

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau

Old, Enthusiasm, None

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw

Forty, Scoundrel

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo

Old, Youth, Fifty

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns

Help, Old, Getting

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

After, Face, Alas

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughan

Youth, Year, Late

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Everything, Young

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier

A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles

Old, Again, Child

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