Age Quotes

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How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

Charles Caleb Colton

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Daniel Defoe

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Jean Rostand

Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Alfred Victor de Vigny

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Pablo Picasso

Life is a stairway - some are going up, others are going down.

Bulgarian Proverb

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Nikita Ivanovich Panin

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

T. S. Eliot

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers

The years teach much which the days never knew

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age attacks when we least expect it.

Carrie Latet

There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Sophia Loren

Age is a prison from which we cannot escape.

Morrow Bourne

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

Thomas Jefferson

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it.

Chinese Proverb

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom

H. L. Mencken

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

Oscar Wilde

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Age is an issue over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Mark Twain

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

William Allen White

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not equal to our present?

Confucius

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

Never too old to learn.

Latin proverb

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato

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