The older folks are eager to share the wisdom from life experiences. So why do the youngsters never listen? Because they need to learn it for themselves - - - Jeni Storck
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.
- - - - Dave Allen
I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
- - - - Lady Nancy Astor
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
- - - - Lucille Ball
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
- - - - Coco Chanel
I grow old . . . I grow old . . .
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
- - - - T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- - - - Bob Hope
At age fifty, every man has the face he deserves.
- - - - George Orwell
Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
- - - - Satchel Paige
Old Age: First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.
- - - - Leo Rosenberg
When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.
- - - - Gail Sheehy
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
- - - - Kurt Vonnegut
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
- - - - Oscar Wilde
