257 Age Quotes

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

We are always the same age inside.

As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

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

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

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.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable. The laws, the aphorisms, the generalizations, the universal truths, the parables and the old saws - all of the observations about life which can be communicated handily in ready, verbal packages - are as well known to a man at twenty who has been attentive as to a man at fifty. He has been told them all, he has read them all, and he has probably repeated them all before he graduates from college; but he has not lived them all. What he knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty boils down to something like this: The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions - a knowledge not gained by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love - the human experiences and emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men; and perhaps, too, a little faith, and a little reverence for things you cannot see.

Jack and Mary and Gracie and I were going to dinner one night and Gracie asked Mary, 'Is Jack really thirty-nine?' And Mary said, 'Ridiculous.' Then she asked, 'And how is his sex life?' and Mary said, 'Ridiculous!' ~ George Burns

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold:

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for a stranger was his own. ~ Will and Ariel Durant

Ehre das Alter!