Age Quotes

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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.

Half of maturity consists of knowing when and how to be immature.

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.