Age is an issue of mind over matter. ~ If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. ~ Mark Twain
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
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~ Mark Twain
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. ~ Robert Frost
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. ~ I just watch what they do. ~ Andrew Carnegie
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ~ C. ~ S. ~ Lewis
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
Old age has deformities enough of its own. ~ It should never add to them the deformity of vice. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. ~ The older she gets the more interested he is in her. ~ Agatha Christie
All diseases run into one, old age. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ~ Aristotle
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. ~ Bill Cosby
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ~ Francis Bacon
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age. ~ Victor Hugo
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. ~ George Burns
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. ~ Albert Camus
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
Old age is like everything else. ~ To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. ~ Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. ~ Maurice Chevalier
A man growing old becomes a child again. ~ Sophocles
I will never be an old man. ~ To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ~ Francis Bacon
Age considers youth ventures. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~ Voltaire
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. ~ Tom Stoppard
Old age is no place for sissies. ~ Bette Davis
I don’t feel old. ~ I don’t feel anything till noon. ~ That’s when it’s time for my nap. ~ Bob Hope
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
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
Advice 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. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. ~ There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. ~ Victor Hugo
It takes a long time to become young. ~ Pablo Picasso
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. ~ Bette Midler
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. ~ When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. ~ Sophia Loren
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. ~ Anyone can get old. ~ All you have to do is live long enough. ~ Don Marquis
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. ~ John Adams
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. ~ Hosea Ballou
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. ~ Stanislaw Lec
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
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. ~ Andre Maurois
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
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. ~ Betty Friedan
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 trick is growing up without growing old. ~ Casey Stengel
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ~ Emily Dickinson
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ~ Lauren Bacall
I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. ~ James Broughton
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. ~ Euripides
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. ~ Brigitte Bardot
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young. ~ William Feather
After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. ~ Helen Gurley Brown
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
I’m not interested in age. ~ People who tell me their age are silly. ~ You’re as old as you feel. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
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
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. ~ Warren Beatty
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. ~ If you deny that, you deny your heritage. ~ Frances Conroy
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. ~ Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. ~ Golda Meir
In youth the days are short and the years are long. ~ In old age the years are short and day’s long. ~ Pope Paul VI
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ~ Doug Larson
Age is how we determine how valuable you are. ~ Jane Elliot
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~ Bob Hope
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. ~ Kitty O’Neill Collins
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. ~ Josh Billings
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment. ~ B. ~ F. ~ Skinner
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. ~ My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. ~ Louis Kronenberger
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
You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. ~ D. ~ after them. ~ Harrison Ford
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. ~ Jean Paul
Old age is a shipwreck. ~ Charles de Gaulle
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. ~ 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
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. ~ James Thurber
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. ~ Katharine Graham
If you haven’t turned rebel by twenty you’ve got no heart if you haven’t turned establishment by thirty you’ve got no brains! Kevin Spacey
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! Pierre Corneille
I don’t want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I’m not interested. ~ Christine Lahti
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
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
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. ~ Harold Coffin
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. ~ Doris Day
No man is ever old enough to know better. ~ Holbrook Jackson
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
In youth we run into difficulties. ~ In old age difficulties run into us. ~ Beverly Sills
We pay when old for the excesses of youth. ~ J. ~ B. ~ Priestley
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
We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. ~ Frank A. ~ Clark
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. ~ Max Lerner
I’m not afraid of aging. ~ Shelley Duvall
He has a profound respect for old age. ~ Especially when it’s bottled. ~ Gene Fowler
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. ~ Sinclair Lewis
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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
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
I get all fired up about aging in America. ~ Willard Scott
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it. ~ Doris Day
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. ~ Susan Anton
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. ~ Colleen McCullough
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ~ Muriel Spark
The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. ~ Hume Cronyn
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
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
As men get older, the toys get more expensive. ~ Marvin Davis
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
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ~ Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. ~ Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~ Albert Einstein
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. ~ Albert Einstein
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ~ Albert Einstein
The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. ~ The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ~ Mark Twain
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. ~ I told him, ‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas. ~’ Claude Pepper
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Age is whatever you think it is. ~ You are as old as you think you are. ~ Muhammad Ali
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. ~ William Shakespeare
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. ~ Helen Keller
The golden age is before us, not behind us. ~ William Shakespeare
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Thomas Jefferson once said, ‘We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works. ~’ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. ~ Ronald Reagan
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. ~ It looks so calculating. ~ Oscar Wilde
At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Age does not protect you from love. ~ But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ~ Anais Nin
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. ~ It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ~ Ronald Reagan
Old age is just a record of one’s whole life. ~ Muhammad Ali
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. ~ John F. ~ Kennedy
Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is the best provision for old age. ~ Aristotle
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~ Lucille Ball
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you. ~ Marilyn Monroe
I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. ~ I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. ~ Oprah Winfrey
The kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. ~ I don’t want to comment on them too much. ~ They’re at an age where I just want to let them be kids. ~ Eminem
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. ~ Plato
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Erich Fromm
I’ve got volumes on how not to behave. ~ I’ve got more information now than a guy should have at my age. ~ Charlie Sheen
I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. ~ In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. ~ Rodney Dangerfield
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese. ~ Luis Bunuel
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Books were my pass to personal freedom. ~ I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. ~ Oprah Winfrey
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics. ~’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. ~ George Orwell
I must confess, I was born at a very early age. ~ Groucho Marx
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. ~ Aldous Huxley
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ~ Margaret Mead
We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age. ~ Tony Robbins
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am. ~ John Burroughs
Age is not important unless you’re a cheese. ~ Helen Hayes
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. ~ Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. ~ Barbara de Angelis
A woman has the age she deserves. ~ Coco Chanel
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ~ H. ~ L. ~ Mencken
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. ~ They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. ~ Erma Bombeck
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. ~ Voltaire
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. ~ Margaret Mead
I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. ~ It is too late for me. ~ Clint Eastwood
Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age wrinkles the body. ~ Quitting wrinkles the soul. ~ Douglas MacArthur
I don’t need you to remind me of my age. ~ I have a bladder to do that for me. ~ Stephen Fry
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. ~ It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. ~ Dale Carnegie
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. ~ James Joyce
Age merely shows what children we remain. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life. ~ Aphra Behn
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dressing up is a bore. ~ At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. ~ But I’m past that age. ~ Katharine Hepburn
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot. ~ Judy Garland
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
How young can you die of old age? Steven Wright
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. ~ H. ~ L. ~ Mencken
Age does not protect you from love. ~ But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ~ Jeanne Moreau
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. ~ He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. ~ At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. ~ And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. ~ Salvador Dali
Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you. ~ Ogden Nash
If youth knew if age could. ~ Sigmund Freud
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. ~ I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. ~ I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. ~ Princess Diana
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ~ Aldous Huxley
Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. ~ Pope John XXIII
I created Punk for this day and age. ~ Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. ~ That’s what I do. ~ I’m like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. ~ Avril Lavigne
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. ~ Aldous Huxley
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. ~ William James
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. ~ It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. ~ Thomas Carlyle
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. ~ It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get. ~ Elizabeth Taylor
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. ~ George Burns
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. ~ Paulo Coelho
Age is just a number. ~ It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. ~ Joan Collins
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. ~ Phyllis Diller
Youth has no age. ~ Pablo Picasso
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. ~ Bertrand Russell
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. ~ Bertrand Russell
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. ~ Alexander Hamilton
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
In youth we learn in age we understand. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age. ~ Billy Graham
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. ~ Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Bad news isn’t wine. ~ It doesn’t improve with age. ~ Colin Powell
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. ~ Thomas Carlyle
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. ~ Helen Hayes
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. ~ George Orwell
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. ~ A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. ~ Lord Chesterfield
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. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age is a case of mind over matter. ~ If you don’t mind, it don’t matter. ~ Satchel Paige
Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. ~ Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. ~ Louisa May Alcott
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. ~ Bertrand Russell
But the age of chivalry is gone. ~ That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. ~ Edmund Burke
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. ~ Ambrose Bierce
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ~ Ambrose Bierce
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. ~ You have less bias. ~ Abdul Kalam
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. ~ Karl Marx
In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. ~ You perform it. ~ If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show. ~ Timothy Leary
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. ~ But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past. ~ Gilbert K. ~ Chesterton
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. ~ Gore Vidal
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. ~ Edmund Burke
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. ~ Princess Diana
Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think women should start to embrace their age. ~ What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. ~ I can’t change the day I was born. ~ But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. ~ Olivia Munn
Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won’t get run over. ~ Miriam Makeba
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. ~ Dwight D. ~ Eisenhower
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. ~ Walter Scott
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses. ~ Francis Bacon
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. ~ Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~ Tom Wilson
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
And in my own life, in my own small way, I’ve tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. ~ That’s why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. ~ Because I believe that each of us – no matter what our age or background or walk of life – each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation. ~ Michelle Obama
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. ~ Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. ~ John Ruskin
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man. ~ Miguel de Unamuno
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I cried on my 18th birthday. ~ I thought 17 was such a nice age. ~ You’re young enough to get away with things, but you’re old enough, too. ~ Liv Tyler
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. ~ We must prepare for the coming hour. ~ The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Age shouldn’t affect you. ~ It’s just like the size of your shoes – they don’t determine how you live your life! You’re either marvellous or you’re boring, regardless of your age. ~ Steven Morrissey
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. ~ In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him. ~ Michelangelo
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. ~ Orson Welles
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. ~ The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. ~ Charles Kingsley
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. ~ William Blake
Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. ~ And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn’t know anything. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. ~ All propagated with the best intentions. ~ Lord Byron
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. ~ William Wordsworth
The age of chivalry is past. ~ Bores have succeeded to dragons. ~ Charles Dickens
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ~ Peace Pilgrim
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. ~ Mary Schmich
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. ~ Francis Bacon
We are always the same age inside. ~ Gertrude Stein
I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. ~ But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. ~ Billy Joel
Swing voters are more appropriately known as the ‘idiot voters’ because they have no set of philosophical principles. ~ By the age of fourteen, you’re either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster. ~ Ann Coulter
If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. ~ Very few people die past that age. ~ George Burns
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. ~ The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. ~ Andre Maurois
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ~ W. ~ Somerset Maugham
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. ~ Phyllis Diller
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ~ Bo Bennett
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. ~ John Ruskin
What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. ~ Richard Dawkins
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. ~ William Butler Yeats
The wisdom of age: don’t stop walking. ~ Mason Cooley
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. ~ To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. ~ Gore Vidal
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. ~ Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. ~ If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. ~ Jack Benny
“Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. ~ But maturity is the glory of years. ~;Martha Graham;age
270;I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun. ~;George W. ~ Bush;age
271;In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~;Henry Miller;age
272;A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward. ~;Frank Lloyd Wright;age
273;There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. ~;Samuel Johnson;age
274;Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. ~;Michel de Montaigne;age
275;I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13. ~;Richard Dawkins;age
276;Love has no age, no limit and no death. ~;John Galsworthy;age
277;What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories. ~;W. ~ Somerset Maugham;age
278;I have always paid income tax. ~ I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age – which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. ~;Noel Coward;age
279;In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. ~ I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. ~;Will Durant;age
280;And I’m afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. ~ I love trust. ~;Elton John;age
281;My dad encouraged us to fail. ~ Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. ~ If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. ~ It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. ~ Don’t be afraid to fail. ~;Sara Blakely;age
282;What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. ~;Lord Byron;age
283;Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. ~;Washington Irving;age
284;A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ~;Washington Irving;age
285;Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. ~ That went with my weird messianic complex. ~ The ego is a fascinating monster. ~ I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet. ~;Alanis Morissette;age
286;Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. ~ The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. ~;Johnny Ball;age
287;An artist must be a reactionary. ~ He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. ~;Andre Maurois;age
288;What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. ~ You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. ~ Now, you need a laptop. ~;Bono;age
289;I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. ~ Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. ~;Carl Sandburg;age
290;Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere. ~;George Burns;age
291;Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. ~ The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders. ~;F. ~ Scott Fitzgerald;age
292;Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. ~;Walter Scott;age
293;Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. ~;Reinhold Niebuhr;age
294;The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. ~;William Osler;age
295;I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. ~ I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. ~ My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. ~;John Henrik Clarke;age
296;In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation’s seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts. ~;Herman Cain;age
297;No lie ever reaches old age. ~;Sophocles;age
298;I wanted to be a teacher. ~ I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. ~ Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. ~ But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, ‘Oh, God, what’s this?’ I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait. ~;Whitney Houston;age
299;This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. ~;Stendhal;age
300;If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ~;Michel Foucault;age
301;But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. ~;William Wordsworth;age
302;Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. ~;Gore Vidal;age
303;The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned. ~;Cindy Crawford;age
304;The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. ~;John W. ~ Gardner;age
305;It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. ~;Virginia Woolf;age
306;Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ~;W. ~ Somerset Maugham;age
307;A woman tells her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back. ~’ The doctor says, ‘It’s old age. ~’ The woman says, ‘I want a second opinion. ~’ The doctor says: ‘Okay – you’re ugly as well. ~” Tommy Cooper
I’m 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I’d also be marrying her former life, her past. ~ It might be OK for some people – I don’t want to judge it or anything – but it’s not for me. ~ It would destroy my creativity. ~ Henry Rollins
I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age. ~ Mick Jagger
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts. ~ Sophocles
At my age flowers scare me. ~ George Burns
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. ~ George Burns
It is not well to make great changes in old age. ~ Charles Spurgeon
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. ~ William Feather
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. ~ When nothing is sure. ~ I have sympathy with you. ~ Haruki Murakami
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. ~ Joseph Addison
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. ~ Joseph Addison
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. ~ William Hazlitt
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. ~ But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. ~ J. ~ K. ~ Rowling
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. ~ Eric Hoffer
I’m at peace with myself and where I am. ~ In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. ~ I wasn’t competitive, I was comparative. ~ I just wanted to be where everybody else was. ~ Now I’ve gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore. ~ Courteney Cox
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. ~ Robert Mugabe
Marriage is not about age it’s about finding the right person. ~ Sophia Bush
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. ~ It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ~ We have truly entered the century of the educated man. ~ Lyndon B. ~ Johnson
Old age is the verdict of life. ~ Amelia Barr
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age. ~ George Santayana
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. ~ Brigitte Bardot
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. ~ Andre Gide
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ~ All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. ~ Joseph Addison
There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important. ~ Franklin P. ~ Adams
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. ~ Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. ~ Death does away with time. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
I don’t care about age very much. ~ Chinua Achebe
Old age and the passage of time teach all things. ~ Sophocles
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. ~ Tom Stoppard
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. ~ Albert Ellis
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. ~ Russell Baker
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. ~ Franklin P. ~ Adams
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends. ~ Mason Cooley
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. ~ Mason Cooley
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. ~ Mason Cooley
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. ~ Francis Schaeffer
It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ~ Virginia Woolf
Not even old age knows how to love death. ~ Sophocles
It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. ~ After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it. ~ Ben Stein
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. ~ Fidel Castro
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ~ Washington Irving
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. ~ Edward G. ~ Bulwer-Lytton
I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14. ~. ~. ~ I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. ~ I coached the sport until I was 47. ~ I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write. ~ John Irving
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. ~ Margaret Atwood
Age carries all things away, even the mind. ~ Virgil
Age steals away all things, even the mind. ~ Virgil
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?’ Lady Gaga
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. ~ Baltasar Gracian
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. ~ The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself. ~’ Marshall McLuhan
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. ~ Satyajit Ray
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. ~ At my age I have to hold on to something. ~ George Burns
I’m at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill. ~ George Burns
Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you’re the one in the green dress. ~ Lois Wyse
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. ~ Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. ~ Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for ex