Age Quote by Joseph A. Schumpeter

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents' minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to…

— Anonymous

Life is for living and we should all aspire to grow old disgracefully.

— Angela Rippon

I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were…

— Steve Lukather

I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon…

— Caspar David Friedrich

“What seems strained - a mere triumph of perverse ingenuity - to one age, seems plain and obvious to another, so that our ancestors…

— C.S. Lewis

This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

— Joseph Addison

“Dear Angry Older People, over 21-ish, anyone who considers themselves an adult, still bitter: Next time you're wondering what wrong with kids today, you…

— Buddy Wakefield

“One of the greatest glories of growing older is the willingness to ask why and, getting no good answer, deciding to follow my own…

— Anna Quindlen

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

— Vera Nazarian

I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.

— Margaret Atwood

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

— Wilfred Bion