Famous Quotes
- Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
- Felix Frankfurter on Age
- Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
- Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
- David Mamet on Age
- Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
- Emily Dickinson on Age
- Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt on Age
- Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
- W. Somerset Maugham on Age
- Old age is a shipwreck.
- Charles De Gaulle on Age
- Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
- E. B. White on Age
- Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Age
- Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
- Herman Melville on Age
- Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
- Louis Kronenberger on Age
- Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
- Lawrence Durrell on Age
- Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
- Andre Maurois on Age
- Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Age
- Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
- Muhammad Ali on Age
- Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
- Golda Meir on Age
- Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Theodore Roosevelt on Age
- Old age is no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis on Age
- Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
- Maggie Kuhn on Age
- Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
- Thomas Carlyle on Age
- Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
- W. Somerset Maugham on Age
- Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- James Thurber on Age
- Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky on Age
- Old age is the verdict of life.
- Amelia Barr on Age
- Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
- Phyllis Diller on Age
- Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
- Maurice Chevalier on Age
- Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
- Soren Kierkegaard on Age
- Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
- Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- Edith Wharton on Age
- Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
- Mason Cooley on Age
- Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Age
- Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
- John Adams on Age
- Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Age
- On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.
- Patti Stanger on Age
- On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
- Emma Goldman on Age
- On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
- Marvin Olasky on Age
- On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.
- Madonna Ciccone on Age
- Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
- Theodore Sturgeon on Age
- Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Age
- One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
- Judith Viorst on Age
- One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
- Lev Grossman on Age
- One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
- Walter Scott on Age
- One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
- Iris Murdoch on Age
- One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
- Ian Mcewan on Age
- One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Maya Angelou on Age
- One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on Age
- One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
- Miguel De Cervantes on Age
- One man with courage is a majority.
- Thomas Jefferson on Age
- One man with courage makes a majority.
- Andrew Jackson on Age
- One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
- Colin Firth on Age
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