Age Quotes

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

May L. Becker

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, Having O

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

Bonnie Raitt

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Golda Meir

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Margaret Mead

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

St. Simon

Old age is no place for sissies.

Bette Davis

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Henry Vaughan

Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

Corra May Harris

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Brian Clough

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

Carl Gustav Jung

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Bennett Cerf

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Walker Percy

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Jane Fonda

I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.

Andy Serkis

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan P. Smith

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Maggie Kuhn

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Richard Dawkins