Age Quotes

Old age is – a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams

As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

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.

Will you still need me, Will you still feed me, When I’m sixty-four?

No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you’re nine, you think you’ve always been nine years old and will always be. When you’re thirty, it seems you’ve always been balanced on that bright rim of middle life. […]

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.