Mason Cooley Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

  Mason Cooley

  Birthday, Lost Youth, Mourning

• With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

  Mason Cooley

  Mind, Age, Aging

• An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.

  Mason Cooley

  Sex, Night, Age

• As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

  Mason Cooley

  Trying, Age, Decay

• People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Age, Twenties

• The children of childish parents age quickly.

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Parent, Age

• In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Age, Antiques

• Living too long exacts a painful price.

  Mason Cooley

  Long, Age, Painful

• Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Age, Middle

• Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

  Mason Cooley

  Birthday, Fall, Funeral

• Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Ordinary, Demand

• The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.

  Mason Cooley

  Fun, Broken, Age

• Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Lifetime, Old Age

• My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

  Mason Cooley

  Father, Age, Ghost

• Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

  Mason Cooley

  Birthday, Passion, Age Love

• The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Vacancy, Youth

• Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Doubt, Age

• In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Rude, Feelings

• Age: I go slower as time goes faster.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Age, Gone

• The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

  Mason Cooley

  Birthday, Journey, Hiking

• Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.

  Mason Cooley

  Growth, Age, Decay

• An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Tea, Age

• After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

  Mason Cooley

  Ironic, Age, Shy

• As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

  Mason Cooley

  Wisdom, Age, Aging

• After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

  Mason Cooley

  Self Questioning, Age, Aging

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