Age Quotes

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.

I’ve never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Sophocles wrote his Oedipus at 90 years of age; Pope Leo XII inaugurated most of his enlightenment policy after he was 70; Titian painted his masterpiece, the bronze doors of the sacristy of St. Mark’s at 85. Elihu Root died in 1937 at 92 years of age; he was one of the greatest statesmen America […]

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, – something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book.

Old age is the verdict of life.