Age Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“But the great compensation for being fifty in a culture that is not kind to older women is that you care less about criticism…

— Erica Jong

“When my grandmother was sick in the hospital, I foolishly quoted her the saying, 'never regret growing old; it’s a privileged denied to many.'…

— Dan Pearce

“The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not…

— Cephalus

“He'd been raised to give women what they wanted. 'You can fight,' his father told him. 'You can bitch. If you're a real prick,…

— Lisa Unger

“I am an old man. I am entitled, am I not, to say what I think?—and of course to stray from the point.”

— Paul Scott

“How does a man increase his sense of self-worth and make it difficult for anyone to disrespect him?”

— Bruce Bryans

“All these old men want it to be like it was when they were young. But it'll never be like that again, and they'll…

— Omar El Akkad

“The meanest man in the world,” he remarked, “is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“And could a man sink to such triviality, such meanness, such nastiness? Could he change so much? And is it true to life? Yes,…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Yet another man commented that women seem to wallow in their problems, wanting to talk about them forever, whereas he and other men want…

— Deborah Tannen

“You said, in effect, ‘I don’t like the way these people do, so I have no time for them.’ You’d better take time for…

— Harper Lee

“Society tended to dismiss and ignore older women. Big mistake. Never underestimate a woman due to her age. Every word made me love and…

— HelenKay Dimon