Age quotes

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.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

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.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

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

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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