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

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

 —Larry McMurtry

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

 —John Nuveen

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

 —George Bernard Shaw

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.

 —Mary Sarton

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking about us at all.

 —Jock Falkson

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

 —Jim Fiebig

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

 —Jean Rostand

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

 —Doug Larson

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

 —H.L. Mencken

Same old slippers. Same old rice. Same old glimpse of paradise.

 —William James Lampton

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

 —Tom Stoppard

I never feel age. If you have creative work, you don’t have age or time.

—Louise Nevelson

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.

—Doris Lessing

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

 —Ralph Waldo Emerson