Quotes and Sayings about Age

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

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Author: Joan Collins

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Author: Doris Day

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Author: Bob Wells

The trick is growing up without growing old.
Author: Casey Stengel

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

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

There is still no cure for the common birthday.
Author: John Glenn

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.
Author: John B. Priestly

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Author: Don Marquis

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Author: Bob Hope

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Author: Doris Day

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

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.
Author: Samuel Ullman

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