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| People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are. | | Andy Rooney | |
| Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name. | | François de la Rochefoucauld | |
| Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. | | William Osler | |
| The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time. | | Mary Baker Eddy | |
| The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. | | Christian Nevell Bovee | |
| The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. | | Helen Keller | |
| The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. | | William James | |
| The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. | | Pablo Picasso | |
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| The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing | | Havelock Ellis | |
| The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| 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 | |
| The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. | | Bob Wells | |
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| There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. | | Helen Rowland | |
