Famous age quotations

   From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
 ~ by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

   It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
 ~ by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   In a dream you are never eighty.
 ~ by Anne Sexton

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

   Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
 ~ by G. Norman Collie

   Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
 ~ by Oliver Wendell Holmes

   A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
 ~ by Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.

   The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
 ~ by Mark Twain

   Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
 ~ by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

   Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
 ~ by Maurice Chevalier, New York Times, 9 October 1960

   There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.
 ~ by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

   Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
 ~ by Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711

   Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
 ~ by Margaret Willour

   Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
 ~ by Chili Davis

   Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
 ~ by Martin Buxbaum

   Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
 ~ by Saint Aurelius Augustine

   It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.
 ~ by Seigneur de Saint-Evremond, 1696

   As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
 ~ by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

   Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you
 ~ by Bennett Cerf

   Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.
 ~ by Martin H. Fischer

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

   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.
 ~ by J.B. Priestly

   There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
 ~ by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

   Don't worry about avoiding temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
 ~ by Author Unknown

   Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.
 ~ by Dan Bennett



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