Inspirational Quotes on Age

“You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?”

“But old fools is the biggest fools there is.”

“She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.”

“When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people.”

“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”

“Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.”

“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”

“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”

“Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?”

“Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.”

“It is not well to make great changes in old age.”

“Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.”

“Il est encore écrit dans le même évangile : « Quand Jésus se présenta pour être baptisé, il entrait dans sa trentième année. » Et quant à sa prédication qui ne devait durer qu'un an, le même évangile nous l'apprend aussi en ces termes: « Il m'a envoyé pour prêcher durant l'année de grâce du Seigneur. »”

“Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care!”

“History maketh a young man to be old, without wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.”

“Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.”

“You, my dear Rodion Romanovich (excuse an old man), are still a young man, in your first youth, so to speak, and therefore you esteem the human intellect above all things, like all young people. Abstract reasoning and the play of wit tempt you astray.”

“Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.”

“Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.”

“Nowhere in Scripture do I read where we are to discuss hospice care with seniors so they're willing to get out of the way and let younger folks live more expediently.”