Age Quotes

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. – Confucius

Every man over forty is a scoundrel. – George Bernard Shaw

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. – Maurice Chevalier

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later. – Mignon McLaughlin

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. – Euripides

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age. – Victor Hugo

A man growing old becomes a child again. – Sophocles