The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be 'that stabbin' Dilbert guy.' -- Scott Adams

Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. -- Franklin Pierce Adams

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. -- Joseph Addison

It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all. -- Alfred Adler

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. -- Anouk Aimee

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

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

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. -- Roger Allen

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. -- Elizabeth Arden

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. -- Aristotle

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. -- Francis Bacon

Judges don't age; time decorates them. -- Enid Bagnold

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. -- Russell Baker

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

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

You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. -- James Barrie

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. -- Bernard M. Baruch

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. -- Robert Benchley

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. -- Robert Benchley

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. -- Jack Benny

It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80. -- Patty Berg

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive. -- Ingmar Bergman

I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome. -- Milton Berle

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. -- Karl von Bonstetten

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable. -- Robert McAfee Brown

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. -- Pearl S. Buck

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. -- Pearl S. Buck

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation. -- Pearl S. Buck

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. -- Pearl S. Buck

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. -- Pearl S. Buck

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. -- Pearl Buck

If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway. -- Jimmy Buffett

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. -- Abigail Van Buren

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. -- Billie Burke

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. -- George Burns

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. -- George Burns

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. -- George Burns

You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there. -- George Burns

Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. -- Lillian Carter

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life. -- Pablo Casals

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody. -- Willa Cather

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. -- Willa Cather

A woman has the age she deserves. -- Coco Chanel

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. -- Maurice Chevalier

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -- Maurice Chevalier

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming ... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. -- Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. -- Agatha Christie

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age: first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death. -- Cicero

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows. -- William Jefferson Clinton

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. -- Cyril Connolly

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types. -- Cyril Connolly

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler whose son now says, “Dad, I just can't run with you anymore unless I bring something to read.” -- Bill Cosby

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. -- Hume Cronyn

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking. -- Annie Elizabeth Delany

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred. -- Thomas Alva Edison

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. -- Albert Einstein

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. -- Albert Einstein

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. -- T. S. Eliot

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. -- TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

As we grow old…the beauty steals inward. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being an old maid is like death by drowning -- a really delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling. -- Edna Ferber

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. -- Marilyn Ferguson

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. -- Jim Fiebig

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. -- Benjamin Franklin

All would live long, but none would be old. -- Benjamin Franklin

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. -- Betty Friedan

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

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful. -- Marshall Ganz

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. -- Ellen Glasgow

Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young? -- Tish Grier

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. -- Helen Hayes

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. -- William Ernest Hocking

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. -- Eric Hoffer

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. -- Homer

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. -- Homer

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

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose! -- Alice James

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young -- or slender. -- William James

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. -- Robinson Jeffers

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. -- Thomas Jefferson

Though an old man I am but a young gardener. -- Thomas Jefferson

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. -- Thomas Jefferson

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. -- Dr. Johnson

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to. -- Lynn Johnston

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr.

Among all my patients in the second half of life ... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. -- Carl Jung

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length. -- Helen Keller

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. -- Doug Larson

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

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. -- Doris Lessing

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare. -- C.S. Lewis

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last. -- C.S. Lewis

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln

Age is opportunity no less, than youth itself, though in another dress. And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled by the stars invisible by the day. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. -- General Douglas MacArthur

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. -- General Douglas MacArthur

Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. -- Miriam Makeba

One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet. -- Lee Marvin

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. -- Groucho Marx

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. -- Carol Matthau

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. -- W. Somerset Maugham

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -- H. L. Mencken

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -- H. L. Mencken

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. -- Bette Midler

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed! -- Ludwig von Mises

Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. -- Ogden Nash

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. -- Ogden Nash

I never feel age ... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. -- Louise Nevelson

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. -- Anais Nin

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful ... -- Sharon Olds

Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get. -- Robert Orben

Live your life and forget your age. -- Norman Vincent Peale

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. -- Claude Pepper

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. -- Sir Arthur Pinero

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. -- Gloria Pitzer

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. -- Plato

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. -- Plutarch

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. -- Alexander Pope

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. -- Michael Pritchard

There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare. -- Horace Rumpole

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. -- Saki

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. -- George Sand

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. -- George Santayana

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. -- Sir Walter Scott

I grow more intense as I age. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell

The house of my body has spoken often as you rebuild me like blocks, and promise to come visit when I'm finally adjusted on safe land, and am livable, joist to joist with storm windows and screens ... -- Anne Sexton

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom. -- Cornelius Otis Skinner

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

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. -- Logan Pearsall Smith

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties. -- Thomas Sowell

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day. -- C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The trick is growing up without growing old. -- Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. -- Tom Stoppard

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. -- Henry David Thoreau

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. -- Lionel Trilling

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

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. -- Mark Twain

In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces. -- Unknown

One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both. -- Horace Walpole

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.' -- Earl Warren

You're never too old to become younger. -- Mae West

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. -- Edith Wharton

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. -- Edith Wharton

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. -- Edith Wharton

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. -- Alfred North Whitehead

I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. -- Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. -- Oscar Wilde

MRS. ALLONBY: She told me yesterday, and in quite a loud voice too, that she was only eighteen. It was most annoying. LORD ILLINGWORTH: One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything. -- Oscar Wilde

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. -- Thomas Wolfe

Old times never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. -- George E. Woodberry

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. -- Virginia Woolf

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. -- Whitney Young

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