Ages Quotes

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.

Live your life and forget your age.

It takes a long time to become young.

Cherish youth, but trust old age.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

As you get older you will understand more and more that it's not about what you look like or what you own, it's all about the person you've become.

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.