Age Quotes and Sayings 8

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Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

~J.A. Froude

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s. 

~Eddie Murphy

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. 

~Jean Rostand

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. 

~Madeleine L'Engle

You're never too old.  Unfortunately, you're always too young to know it. 

~Robert Brault

Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves. 

~Martin H. Fischer

One of the best parts of growing older?  You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless. 

~Liz Smith

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages.  It's the sin of my middle age, too. 

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. 

~Emily Dickinson

In a dream you are never eighty. 

~Anne Sexton

Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. 

~François La Rochefoucauld

Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places. 

~Author Unknown

Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. 

~Daniel Defoe

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. 

~Franklin P. Adams

Where did the time go?  Yesterday, I was a girl, and today, I suddenly find myself in the autumn of my years with the cold winds of winter breathing down my neck. 

~Peggy Toney Horton

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred. 

~Allen

I don't do alcohol anymore - I get the same effect just standing up fast. 

~Author Unknown

Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

~Carolina Herrera

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

~George Foreman

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

~Ralph Lauren

I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility.

~Iyanla Vanzant

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

~Harlan Coben

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

~Allan Bloom

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

~George Foreman

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

~Bonnie Raitt

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

~Clive Bell

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

~Kurt Masur

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

~Oriana Fallaci

In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.

~Oriana Fallaci

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