Mark Twain Quotes

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

As we grow up, either we lose people or have a lot of them around us. I have seen many people who are isolated in their old age.

You're as old as you behave.

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.

I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

I still feel like I'm 19. We're old now!

I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.

You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old.

If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.

You are getting too old for this. A man is as old as he feels, woman! And how old do you feel? About ninety.