Age Quotes and Sayings 13

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There is only one cure for gray hair.  It was invented by a Frenchman.  It is called the guillotine.  

~P.G. Wodehouse

Life is like a roll of toilet paper.  The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.  ~Author Unknown

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.  

~Harold Coffin

Old age is a lot of crossed off names in an address book.  

~Ronald Blythe

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather.  Later he played my father and finally he played my husband.  If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother.  That's the way it is in Hollywood.  The men get younger and the women get older.  

~Lillian Gish

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.  

~Jonathan Swift,Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711

Oh! weep not that our beauty wears
Beneath the wings of Time;
That age o'erclouds the brow with cares
That once was raised sublime...
But mourn the inward wreck we feel
As hoary years depart,
And Time's effacing fingers steal
Young feelings from the heart!
~Robert Montgomery, "Lost Feelings," March 1828

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask. ~Robert Brault

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.  ~Seigneur de Saint-Evremond, 1696

Age is like the newest version of a software - it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had.  

~Carrie Latet

Age swallows our childhood. 

~Terri Guillemets

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis.  I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.  

~Hugo L. Black

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning - for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.  ~Robert Brault

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.  

~Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711

They talk about the economy this year.  Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation.  Altogether, I'm in a depression.  

~Rick Majerus

Few people know how to be old.  

~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

We are only young once.  That is all society can stand.  

~Bob Bowen

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.  

~Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left.  It is called hunting for your spectacles.  

~Edward Grey

The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone.  

~Richard Jefferies, The Life of the Fields, 1908

Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving.  

~Author Unknown

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.  

~William Butler Yeats

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming.  It hit me from the rear.  

~Phyllis Diller

Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.  

~Andre Maurois

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.  

~Benjamin Disraeli,Coningsby

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

~George Burns

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.  

~Voltaire

You can't turn back the clock.  But you can wind it up again.  

~Bonnie Prudden

The trick is growing up without growing old.  

~Casey Stengel

It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.  

~Quoted by Raymond A. Michel in The Leaf

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable.  I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.  

~Leon Edel

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.  

~Jack Nicklaus

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.  

~Timothy Leary

It takes a long time to become young.  

~Pablo Picasso

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.  ~Joan Collins

I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
~Robert Frost

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

~Logan Pearsall Smith

Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time.  ~T.A. Sachs, to "Time! where didst thou those years inter, Which I have seene decease?" by William Habington

Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you  

~Bennett Cerf

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.  

~Sheila Kaye-Smith

There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.  

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable.  There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.  

~Victor Hugo

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

~Bill Vaughn

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

~Kurt Vonnegut

To the loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep.  

~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Williston Fish

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive.  At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive.  At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive.  Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?  

~Jules Feiffer

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.  ~Margaret Willour

The idea is to die young as late as possible.  

~Ashley Montagu

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