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Quotes About Age

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
~ Thomas A. Edison
This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.
~ William Cowper
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
~ Albert Einstein
I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
~ Gloria Steinem
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.
~ Alice Herz-Sommer
My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?
~ Carmen Dell'Orefice
Blues ain't football. You don't have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
~ Elvin Bishop
By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.
~ Grenville Kleiser
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
~ George Bernard Shaw
Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
~ Lord Byron
My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?
~ Michael J. Fox
I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.
~ Angela Lansbury
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
~ Steve Jobs
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Life begins at eighty.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
~ Oliver Goldsmith
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
~ Oscar Wilde
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.
~ Morrissey
At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
~ Agatha Christie
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.
~ Virginia Woolf
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
~ Francis Bacon