Age Quote by John Todd

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

— S. Jay Olshansky

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

— Robert E. Sherwood

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

— Mason Cooley

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

— Margaret Mead

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

— Franz Grillparzer

“We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That’s the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing…

— Lloyd Jones

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

— Joseph Joubert

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death…

— Gertrude Stein

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Until the late modern era, more than 90 per cent of humans were peasants who rose each morning to till the land by the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Few people know how to be old.

— Maggie Kuhn

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

— Penelope Keith