Famous Quotes

"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 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 Judith Viorst

• "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."

• "When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead."

• "We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong."

• "Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia."

• "One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again."