I want nothing to do with natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
—George Burns
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
—George Burns
That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
—Ernest Hemingway
The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
—Germain G. Glien
Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you—and you realize you've grown up.
—Jacqueline Woodson in Between Madison and Palmetto
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
—Mark Twain
As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
—Ernest Hemingway
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
—Luis Bunuel
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
—E. B. White
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does—except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
—Abigail Van Buren
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find—at the age of 50, say—that a whole new life has opened before you.
—Agatha Christie
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
—Alfred North Whitehead
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
—André Maurois
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
—Anouk Aimee
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
—Aristotle