Age Quote by William Hazlitt

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

— Ernest Hemingway

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they…

— Jean Giraudoux

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

— Tryon Edwards

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?

— Thomas a Kempis

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

— Stephen King

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

— John Buchan

When you grow older, you grow wiser.

— Mina Deanna

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on…

— Thomas Carlyle

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom of the…

— Thomas Carlyle

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero