Age Quotes

I have now gotten to the age when I must prove that I’m just as good as I never was.

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Yes, I too think there is lots to be said for being no longer young; and I do most heartily agree that it is just as well to be past the age when one expects or desires to attract the other sex. It’s natural enough in our species, as in others, that the young birds […]

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

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when the dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.