Age Quotes

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can’t say which was more exquisite.

By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can’t tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

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

Old, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an “old man”. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an “old” book.

Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. (at 73)

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

At my age flowers scare me.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.