Age Quotes

Anon.

Aging is bad, but consider the alternative.

Anon.

You are young at any age if you're planning for tomorrow.

Astor, Lady Nancy

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Barker, Clive

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot.

Beauvoir, Simonede

Old age is life's parody.

Bierce, Ambrose

Age that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

Boozer, Rhonda

A bird in the hand is dead.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

Burns, George

I'm at that age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

Burns, George

If you live to the age of a hundred, you have it made because very very few people die past the age of a hundred.

Carlyle, Thomas

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Cicero

Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Curtis, George Williams

Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Denham, John

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Dorr, Julia Ripley

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Edwards, Tyron

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Einstein, Albert

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Euripides

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Fisher, Carrie

I know I'm going to get old and be one of those crazy women who sits on balconies and spits on people and screams, 'Get a haircut!' I know this, and I don't really fear it. I'd just like to move toward it with as much grace and dignity as possible.

Foolish Dictionary

Adolescence: a stage between infancy and adultery.

Garfield, James A.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Goldsmith, Oliver

How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease.

Harrison, Rex

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

Hazlitt, William

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Heller, Joseph

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Hope, Bob

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

La Rochefoucauld, François

Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.

Lebowitz, Fran

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.

Lebowitz, Fran

Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

Lehrer, Tom

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

Linkletter, Art

The four stages of man are: Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence and obsolescence.

Long, Lazarus

By the data to date, there i sonly one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Marx, Groucho

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

Marx, Groucho

Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Mencken, H.L.

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

Moore, Thomas

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

Pope, Alexander

A bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

Rivers, Joan

I was born in 1962. True. And the room next to me was 1963.

Rostand, Jean

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

Seneca

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. -- Seneca

Shaw, George Bernard

Any person under the age of thirty, who, having any knowledge of the existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferior.

Smith, Bob

A person over age 65 who drinks says that his doctor recommends it.

Tacitus

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Taylor, A.J.P.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

Temple, William

A bird in the hand is safer thantwo overhead. All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries.

Todd

Few ever lived to a great age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

Trotsky, Leon

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Twain, Mark

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

Twain, Mark

There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else's.

Unknown

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Unknown

Age isn't important unless you're a cheese.

Vergil

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Waugh, Evelyn

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

Wilde, Oscar

Show respect for age. Drink good scotch for a change. The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

Wilde, Oscar

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

Wilde, Oscar

Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.