Age Quote by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last…

— Tryon Edwards

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

— Anita Brookner

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and…

— Robertson Davies

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it…

— Giacomo Leopardi

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

— Thomas Jefferson

Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the…

— Isaac Asimov

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.

— Gerard De Nerval

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

— Honore de Balzac

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young,…

— Robertson Davies