These age quotes will inspire you. Age is the length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed or a distinct period of history.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging age quotes, age sayings, and age proverbs.
Famous Age Quotes
- “Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” George Burns
- “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” Kurt Vonnegut
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“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” Betty Friedan
- “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
- “I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.” James Broughton
- “Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” Tom Stoppard
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“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” Victor Hugo
- “Old age is no place for sissies.” Bette Davis
- “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain
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“Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Dylan Thomas
- ‘There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” Sophia Loren
- “Youth is wasted on the young.” George Bernard Shaw
- “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” Andrew Carnegie
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“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
- “Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” Pope John XXIII
- “The trick is growing up without growing old.” Casey Stengel
- “To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.” Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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“Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.” Helen Hayes
- “Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.” George Sand
- “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” Dorothy Canfield Fisher , Young age quotes
- “We are always the same age inside.” Gertrude Stein
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“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” Lucille Ball
- “No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.” Katharine Graham
- “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
- “As men get older, the toys get more expensive.” Marvin Davis
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“Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.” Donald G. Mitchell
- “I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.” Lauren Bacall
- “A grownup is a child with layers on.” Woody Harrelson
- “It is not how old you are, but how you are old.” Jules Renard
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“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” Golda Meir
- “I think women should start to embrace their age. What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. I can’t change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.” Olivia Munn
- “After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.” Bette Midler
- “Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.” Jonathan Swift
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“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
- “When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.” Victor Hugo
- “Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” Louis Kronenberger
- “Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.” Hugh Hefner
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“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.” Brigitte Bardot
- “Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” Jeanne Moreau
- “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.” Agatha Christie , Age quotes for her
- “I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Francis Bacon The surest sign of age is loneliness.” Annie Dillard
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“A man growing old becomes a child again.” Sophocles
- “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
- “Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.” John Singer Sargent
- “I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.” Sting
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“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” Robert Frost
- “You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.” Judith Viorst
- “Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.” Jean Paul
- “Old age is a shipwreck.” Charles de Gaulle
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“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” Henry David Thoreau
- “Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! Pierre Corneille Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.” Thomas Browne
- “Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.” Albert Camus
- “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.” Coco Chanel
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“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.” Bob Hope
- “You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.” Maurice Chevalier
- “Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.” John Adams
- “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” Mark Twain
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“Middle age is youth without levity and age without decay.” Doris Day
- “Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.” Sam Ewing
- “One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.” Malcolm Muggeridge
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“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.” Bob Hope
- “What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.” Jean-Paul
- “The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.” Oscar Wilde
Age is the amount of time during which someone or something has lived or existed.
