The best Quotes and Sayings about Age

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Age doesn't really matter... unless you're a cheese.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun. You should stay a kid as long as possible!

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

You've got to grow up sometime.

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

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

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

I learned that if you wait long enough, you just grow older.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

I think I've never stopped feeling like a kid.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

The soul is healed by being with children.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.