Age Quotes, Sayings about getting old

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
– Dorothy Fulheim

The years teach much which the days never knew.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
– Charles Dickens

The Hidden Power of the Heart
– Sara Paddison

Life is a long lesson in humility.
– James M. Barrie.

The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed,Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.
– Edmund Waller

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
– C.S. Lewis

In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order.I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
– Will Durant

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
– Bob Hope

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
– Sam Ewing

If youth knew; if age could.
– Henri Estienne

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
– Jeanne Moreau

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
– Anatole France

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy.
– Oscar Wilde

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
– Robert Browning

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
– Agatha Christie

Many people think old age is a disease, something to be thwarted if possible. But someone has said that if any period is a disease, it is youth Age is recovering from it.
– T. C. Myers

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
– Maurice Chevalier

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
– Jim Fiebig

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
– Oscar Wilde