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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
Sep 10, 2025
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear... But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.
There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood-Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
We can't reach old age by another man's road.
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.