Quotable Quotes

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

"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

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." - Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

"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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

"Every man over forty is a scoundrel." - George Bernard Shaw

"Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age." - Victor Hugo

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

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

"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

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

"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

"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." - Francis Bacon

"Age considers youth ventures." - Rabindranath Tagore

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

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity." - Tom Stoppard

"Old age is no place for sissies." - Bette Davis

"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap." - Bob Hope