Age Quotes

“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

W. Somerset Maugham

“The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.”

Andy Rooney

“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.”

Albert Einstein

“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”

Bernard Baruch

“Men are like wine; some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”

Pope John XXIII

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book, and slowly read.”

W. B. Yeats

“Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!”

Robert Browning

“Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.”

“Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not reached the abrupt decline.”

Seneca

“As I like a young man in whom there is something of the old, so I like an old man in whom there is something of the young.”

Cicero

“The crown of old age is influence.”

Cicero

“Few people know how to be old.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“In growing old we become more foolish and more wise.”

François de La Rochefoucauld

“Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.”

Francis Bacon

“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”

“Many foxes grow grey, but few grow good.”

“My salad days, when I was green in judgment.”

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”

“When the age is in, the wit is out.”

“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”

“The youth of America is their oldest tradition.”

“Those whom the gods love grow young.”

“Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason; their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.”

Jonathan Swift

“Youth, large, lusty, loving, youth full of grace, force, fascination, do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?”