Age Quotes - Page 4

• I hope I never get so old I get religious.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Religious

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.174, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

  Leon Edel

  Death, House, Mind

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• No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Measure of my Days (1968) p. 16

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• All diseases run into one, old age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Funny Relationship, Hair

  Journals

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• It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Future, Mean

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

  Mary Schmich

  Funny, Birthday, Knowledge

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• Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

  Albert Camus

  Birthday, Men, Faces

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

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• Old age is a shipwreck.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Birthday, Aging, Shipwreck

  Charles de Gaulle (1964). “The complete war memoirs of Charles de Gaulle”

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• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Witty, Time

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1389, GENERAL PRESS

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• Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Children, Pain, Fall

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• What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

  Thomas More

  Friendship, Flower, Wine

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• We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Needs, Young, Grows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.183, Penguin

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• All would live long, but none would be old.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Long, Would Be, Aging

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Sept. 1749

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• I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.

  Bob Hope

  Blood, Best Funny, Type

  "Goodbyes" by Craig Taylor, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2003.

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• We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Time, Hands, Meditation

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• As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

  Frances Conroy

  Birthday, Ethos, Faces

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• An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Funny, Birthday

  Attributed in Bennett Cerf, The Life of the Party (1956)

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• I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

  James Thurber

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Quoted in an interview with Glenna Syse in Time Magazine, August 15, 1960.

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• The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

  Carl Sagan

  Dark, Science, Perfect

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

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• The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Life And Love, Twilight

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

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• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

  Mark Twain

  Happy Birthday, Time, Growing Up

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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• I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

  Yuichiro Miura

  Feelings, World, Exhausted

  "Nepalese man, 81, attempts Everest climb days after 80-year-old set record" by Justin McCurry, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Evil

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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• With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Funny, Forever, Would Be

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!

  Ludwig von Mises

  Morning, Eight, Feels

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