Age Quotes and Sayings 23

AGE QUOTES (23)

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

~William Wordsworth

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

~Tom Wilson

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

~Andre Maurois

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

~Andre Maurois

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

~John Ruskin

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

~Simone de Beauvoir

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

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

~Frank Lloyd Wright

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

~Ann Coulter

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

~Bo Bennett

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

~W. Somerset Maugham

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

~George W. Bush

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

~Charles Kingsley

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

~William Feather

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

~Michelle Obama

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

~Ambrose Bierce

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

~Charles Spurgeon

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

~George Burns

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

~Washington Irving

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

~Richard Dawkins

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

~Martha Graham

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

~Jack Benny

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

~Mason Cooley

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

~Michel de Montaigne

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