Age Quotes by Mason Cooley

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

— Mason Cooley

Living too long exacts a painful price.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Age: I go slower as time goes faster.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

— Mason Cooley

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

— Mason Cooley

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

— Mason Cooley

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

— Mason Cooley

With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

— Mason Cooley

The children of childish parents age quickly.

— Mason Cooley

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

— Mason Cooley

In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

— Mason Cooley

Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley