Aging And Wisdom Quotes:

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

- John Barrymore

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Man Of My Dreams, Staying Young

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Health, Medicine, 50th Birthday, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

- Herman Melville

topic: Life, Birthday, Time, Staying Young, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Birthday, Good Morning, Indication, Staying Young

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

- Tom Wilson

topic: Happy Birthday, Wisdom, Silly, Old Jokes, Coming Of Age

We are always the same age inside.

- Gertrude Stein

source: "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

topic: Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Birthday, Time, Years, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

- Groucho Marx

source: Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

topic: Funny, Witty, Crazy, Old Age Humor, Wise Age

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: 1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

topic: Love, Friendship, Birthday, Stoops, Old Time

The years teach much which the days never know.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Wisdom And Experience, Wise Wisdom

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

- Satchel Paige

source: Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

topic: Birthday, Baseball, Fun, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

- Maurice Chevalier

source: Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964)

topic: Funny, Birthday, Health, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom, Older People, Old Age Humor

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

- George William Curtis

source: George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111

topic: Birthday, Years, Feelings, Inspirational Age, Wise Age

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Time, Humor, Tragedy, Old Age Humor, Age And Wisdom

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Time, Years, Age, Aging And Wisdom

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

source: Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.292, Open Road Media

topic: Strong Women, Time, Age, Young Women, Uncontrollable

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Birthday, Time, Men, Old Guys, Older Man

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Wine, Abby, Age And Wisdom

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

- C. E. M. Joad

topic: Birthday, Wine, Turning 50, Oil And Vinegar, Best Wine

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

- Harrison Ford

topic: Birthday, Fun, Book, Aging And Wisdom, Black Books

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

- Bob Hope

topic: Happy Birthday, Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Humorous Birthday, Birthday Cake

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

- Pope John XXIII

topic: Birthday, Drinking, Wine, Vineyards, Oil And Vinegar

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

- Pope Paul VI

topic: Birthday, Tunes, 60th Birthday, Milestone Birthday, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

- Ashley Montagu

topic: Death, Ideas, Young, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

- Robinson Jeffers

source: Robinson Jeffers, “Promise Of Peace”

topic: Beautiful, Strong, Grace, Aging And Wisdom

The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

- Eugene O'Neill

topic: Funny, Children, Kissing, Aging And Wisdom, Senior Citizen

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Happy Birthday, Time, Children, Young Mother, Wonderful Experience