Age Quote by Thomas Browne

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

— Basil Rathbone

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

— Jennifer Grey

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

— Anonymous

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Bad habits can easily be formed when you're younger.

— Gordon Hayward

Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will mend, this is every day getting worse.

— George James

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

— Diana Cooper

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned…

— Flannery O'Connor

The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's…

— Robert Duvall

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

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it…

— Andre Maurois

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

— Mason Cooley