Age Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics…

— Walt Kelly

I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We…

— Adolf Hitler

The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight…

— Edward Gibbon

Now that adolescence is accessible to the multitude and not restricted to gentlemen and lords, many adults are taking alarm at what seems to…

— Anonymous

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

— Storm Jameson

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we…

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But the civilized…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old are weak,…

— Henry David Thoreau

When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we…

— Julian Barnes

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but…

— Jean de la Bruyere