Age Quotes - Page 18

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Wrinkles, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1055, Delphi Classics

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• Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inability To Love, Giving, People

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• Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Good Morning, Passion, Shadow

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• The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Aging, Remember, Happened

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• Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

  George Santayana

  Adventure, Spirit, Aging

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.

  Hy Gardner

  Funny, Sarcastic, Hurt

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• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Acceptance

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• I am 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

  Aging, Problem, Should

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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• There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Giving, Aging, One Thing

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• The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Night, Lamps, Burning

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows: being a series of sermons from Luke XIX.41”, p.17

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

  Doris Day

  Wise, Time, Decay

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Birthday, Motivation

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• When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

  Andy Rooney

  Aging, Used, Be Careful

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• THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.

  Mel Brooks

  Running, Italian, Men

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• The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

  Doris Day

  Birthday, Women, Memorable

  Quoted in A E Hotchner Doris Day (1978).

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• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Time

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• Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Twilight, Opportunity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

  Edith Wharton

  Sorrow, Aging, Old Age

  1934 A Backward Glance, 'A First Word'.

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• After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Birthday, Retirement, Money

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• I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Memories, Believe, Memorable

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humor, Smoking

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• I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

  George Burns

  Retirement, Faces, Aging

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• What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Birthday, Time

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

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• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  Dale Carnegie

  Time, Travel, Life And Love

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.54, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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