Famous Quotes

"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."

Eleanor Roosevelt on Age

More quotes about Age

• "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "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 on Age

• "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

  Kurt Vonnegut on Age

• "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

  Robert Frost on Age

More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

• "Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."

• "Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."

• "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

• "You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."

• "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."