Quotes on Age
1. No wise man ever wished to be younger. —Swift
2. To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. —Henri Frederic Amiel
3. In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long. —Panin
4. Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty-at which age I would have retired on a double allowance. —William Osier
5. Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle; old age a regret. —Disraeli
6. At 20 years of age the will resigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement. —Benjamin Franklin
7. Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. —Old Testament
8. We do not count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count. —Emerson
9. Old wood best to bum, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. —Bacon
10. The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. —Schopenhauer
11. The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. —Wilde
12. An old man is twice a child. —Shakespeare
13. Iam getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all. —Jawaharlal Nehru
14. A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. —Francis Bacon
15. A man is as old as he’s feeling, A woman as old as she looks. —Mortimer Collins
16. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. —Robert Frost
17. Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. —Washington Irving
18. One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything. —Oscar Wilde
19. From birth to age eigthteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-live, 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
20. Age considers, youth ventures. —Anonymous