A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
나이가 들어도 아이스크림 덩이가 콘에서 떨어질(have a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone) 때의 극한 실망감은 마찬가지다.
Jim Fiebig
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
나이는 성숙에 대한 값비싼 대가( a very high price to pay for maturity)이다.
Tom Stoppard
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Mark Twain
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
일정한 나이 이후(after a certain age) 모든 사람은 자신의 얼굴에 책임을 져야(be responsible for his or her face)한다.
Albert Camus
All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
고고학자는 여자에게 최고의 남편감이다. 아내가 나이가 들면 들수록(the older the wife gets)더 아내에게 관심을 갖기(the more interested he is in her)때문이다.
Agatha Christie
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age
Hosea Ballou
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled.
Gene Fowler
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis
I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot
I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.
Bob Hope
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
William Ernest Hocking
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Josh Billings
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
Sting
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
나는 결코 노인이 되지 않을(will never be an old man)것이다. 나에게 있어 노령은 언제나 나보다 15살 더 많은(be always 15 years older than I am)나이를 말한다.
Francis Bacon
I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Knut Hamsun
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day’s long.
젊은 시절엔(in youth) 하루는 짧고 한 해는 길다(the days are short and the years are long). 늙어서는 한 해는 짧은 데 하루는 길다(the years are short and day’s long).
Pope Paul VI
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Beverly Sills
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Bill Cosby
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Jules Feiffer
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day
No man is ever old enough to know better.
Holbrook Jackson
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Louis Kronenberger
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
Golda Meir
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt
Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
James Thurber
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius
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.
Dwight L. Moody
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson
The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Logan P. Smith
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
Doris Day
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Bob Wells
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel
The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
젊음이 가버렸다는 것을 알게 되는(become aware that our youth is gone) 어떤 특정한 시점이 있다(there issome specific moment). 그러나 세월이 흐른 뒤에 보면 그 것은 훨씬 나중의 일이라는(be much later)것을 알게 된다.
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan Bleasdale
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. Priestley
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck
We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank Howard Clark
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
When you become senile, you won’t know it.
Bill Cosby
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
주름살은 미소가 머물렀던 곳을 나타내주는(merely indicate where smiles have been) 것일 뿐이다.
Mark Twain
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
George Burns
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Judith Viorst
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Lec
Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
Bill Vaughan