It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), O Magazine, October 2003

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945), The Woman Within, 1954

I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume.

gadgetgirl, gadgetgirl, 07-25-07

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

George Burns (1896 - 1996)

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

George Burns (1896 - 1996)

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand (1804 - 1876)

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Gloria Pitzer, in Reader's Digest, 1979

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad

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

Karl von Bonstetten