Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it.
Doris Day

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.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.
Anonymous

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Anonymous

You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.
Anonymous

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Bonstettin

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee

You sit in a rocking chair and can’t get it going.You confuse having a clear conscience with having a bad memory
Anonymous

Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Anonymous