Age Quotes and Sayings - Page 2



Be wise with speed,
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Dorothy Fulheim

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age – I missed it coming and going.
J.B. Priestly

I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.
Anonymous

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

Everyone is the age of their heart.
Guatemalan Proverb

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
Chinese Proverb

Age is only a number.
Lexi Starling

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

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Regrets are the natural property of Grey hairs.
Charles Dickens

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
William Shakespeare

Do you think my mind is maturing late,
Or simply rotted early?
Ogden Nash

Don’t trust anyone over thirty.
Jerry Rubin

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
Sophie Tucker

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.
Arthur Pinero

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.
Norman Mailer

Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
Meryl Streep

Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
T. S. Eliot

I am just turning forty and taking my time about it.
Harold Lloyd

I am old enough to be – in fact am – your mother.
A. A. Milne

I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
Matthew Arnold

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
John Dryden

A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel

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.
Helena Rubinstein

I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.
John Gielgud

I think middle age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
W. R. Inge

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