Age Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.

— Hortense Calisher

Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.

— Thomas Bastard

Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.

— Jennifer Grey

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

— Laurence J. Peter

Why is youth so short and age so long?

— Ouida

Every stage of life longs for others. When one is young and eager, one aspires to maturity, and everyone older would like nothing better…

— Andrew Solomon

Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline.

— Kofi Annan

In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience

— Oscar Wilde

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the…

— Michio Kaku

Age merely shows what children we remain.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age…

— John Mortimer