Age Quotes - Page 3

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Cicero

Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Few people know how to be old.

La Rochefoucauld

First you forget names then you forget faces then you forget to pull your zipper up then you forget to pull your zipper down.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.

Marguerite Yourcenar

The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.

Anonymous

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

Simone de Beauvoir

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Voltaire

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel age like an icicle down my back.

Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

Igor Stravinsky

Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.

T.S Eliot

Old foxes want no tutors.

Old birds are hard to pluck.

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

William Feather

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age alias! that al wole envenyme Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon ther is namoore to telle The bren as I best kan now most I selle.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be The last of life for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth "a whole I plant Youth shows but half Trust God see all nor be afraid."

Robert Browning

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!

I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women for example I think they deserve to have more than 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

Konrad Adenauer

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.

Nancy Lady Astor

If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years) I'd have taken better care of myself.

James Hubert Blake

If the young only knew if the old only could.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

William Shakespeare

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

T.S Eliot

The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.

Jacques Bainville

There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.

Dag Hammarskjöld

To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

William Hazlitt

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.

Benjamin Disraeli

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

Sir Francis Bacon

At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Study until twenty-five investigation until forty profession until sixty at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

In youth the days are short and the years are long in old age the years are short and the days long.

Panin

The days of our years are threescore years and ten and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years yet is their strength labour and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we fly away.

Bible

The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Age cannot wither her nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare

Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … 18 Next