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Quotations by Subject: Age
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Showing quotations 31 to 60 of 83 quotations in our collections

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.: George Sand (1804 - 1876)
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.: Gloria Pitzer, in Reader's Digest, 1979
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.: Karl von Bonstetten
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.: Lillian Carter, in her 80s
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.: Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988), 1980
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.: Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-04-04
You're never too old to become younger.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
I'm having a glorious old age. One of my greatest delights is that I have outlived most of my opposition.: Maggie Kuhn, Speech to Vermont state legislature, 1991
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.: Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.: Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.: Maurice Chevalier (1888 - 1972)
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.: Michael Pritchard
Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.: Miriam Makeba, O Magazine, October 2003
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
I am not young enough to know everything.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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