Quotes about age
264 quotes from 181 people
Alexander Pope1688–1744Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
Che Guevara1928–1967Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
David Lynch1946–2025McKenna interview (1992)
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850The Lily of the Valley (1835), Part II: First Love, as translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Julie Andrewsborn 1935The New York Times (14 March 1982)
Sean Connery1930–2020Interview in the Saturday Evening Post (6 June 1964).
Bob Saget1956–2022Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian (2014), Ch. 12: Falling Upward, Or What It’s Like To Be Loved And HatedFor a woman, forty is torture, the end. I think turning forty is miserable.
Grace Kelly1929–1982Kelly (1969) in interview with William B. Arthur. Cited in: James Spada (1988) Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess. p. 280I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I am not old yet!
Tina Turner1939–2023I, Tina (1986), p. 202
Burt Reynolds1936–2018Attributed to Reynolds in: Orange Coast Magazine, Oct. 1984. p. 143Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself keeps you feeling young.
Betty White1922–2021If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011)I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet.
Betty White1922–2021If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011)
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Farewell address to Congress (19 April 1951)
