Age Quotes

9856 Age quotes by 5336 unique authors

It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness… — Lyndon B. Johnson
A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom… — Lyndon B. Johnson
He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such… — Lyndon B. Johnson
There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit...retire! — Groucho Marx
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did. — Malcolm Forbes
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean. — Robert Breault
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. — Ernest Hemingway
What do gardeners do when they retire? — Bob Monkhouse
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all… — Pablo Casals
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance… — George Santayana
Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is… — Robert Bly
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. — W. Somerset Maugham
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks… — Hannah Whitall Smith
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. — Rowan Williams
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. — Democritus
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come;… — Charles Caleb Colton
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon… — W. Somerset Maugham
I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. — Thomas Jefferson
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity. — Helena Rubinstein
Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year. — Lionel Shriver
The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so… — Margot Fonteyn

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