We are always the same age inside.

- Gertrude Stein

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- John Barrymore

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

- Helen Rowland

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

- Leroy (Satchel) Paige

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

- Rowan D. Williams

Older, we must move, and stay, and move again, to keep our life-giving ties alive, for this movement is our fountain of age. And there's a freedom in realizing this, a new freedom to move or stay, new necessities and possibilities of choice.

- Betty Friedan

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

- Barbara de Angelis

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

- Jessamyn West

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

- Harrison Ford

When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect -- but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate -- may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical -- always think for yourself.

- Linus Pauling

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

- Austin O'Malley

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

- Aristotle

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

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

- Hosea Ballou



One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

- Virginia Woolf



We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg



I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

- Albert Einstein



My idea of Hell is to be young again.

- Marge Piercy



With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.

- James Thurber



To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

- Oscar Wilde



It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

- W. Somerset Maugham



As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

- Vincent van Gogh



We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Youth has no age.

- Pablo Picasso



The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

- William Wordsworth



Ageism's very strong against women in our society. I should bring in to you all the checks I get from people telling me to dye my hair, that I look like the great gray ape of the Congress. And I keep saying, in the ape community, they revere their gray apes.

- Pat Schroeder



The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

- Paul Newman



Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.

- Robert Browning



A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

- Voltaire



I want to die young at a ripe old age.

- Ashley Montagu



The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld



First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful.

- Lady Diana Cooper



None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

- Henry David Thoreau



Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

- Thomas Jefferson



Though an old man I am but a young gardener.

- Thomas Jefferson



We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.

- Pearl S. Buck



Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

- Pearl S. Buck



You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

- Pearl S. Buck



Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

- Pearl S. Buck



The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

- Pearl S. Buck



It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.

- Helen Keller



People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger

- Albert Einstein