Age Quotes

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,Too far in years to be a pupil now.

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...

As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

It takes a long time to become young.

Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

It's great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who's bald.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

I'm too old to know everything

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

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

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

You shall more command with years than with your weapons.

When the age is in, the wit is out

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.