Age Quotes

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford

Book, Black, After

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Katharine Graham

Else, Avoid, Aging

Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott

May, Cannot, Old

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Beverly Sills

Old, Youth, Run

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
James Thurber

Happen, Old, Unexpected

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
Pierre Corneille

Enemy, Despair, Rage

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
Kevin Spacey

Heart, Rebel, Brains

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
Christine Lahti

Good, Care, Fight

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis

Time, Good, Thinking

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan Bleasdale

Love, Mind, Heart

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

Nature, Time, Mother

No man is ever old enough to know better.
Holbrook Jackson

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day

Youth, Middle, Decay

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck

May, Old, Making

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

Young, Older, Blood

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Knut Hamsun

Past, Someone, Old

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. Priestley

Old, Youth, Pay

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank A. Clark

Enjoy, Old, Put

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Max Lerner

Change, Sadness, Real

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

Life, Mind, Busy

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon

I'm not afraid of aging.
Shelley Duvall

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Heart, Old, Keep

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