Famous Quotes

"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

Francis Bacon on Age

More quotes about Age

• "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

  Henry Ford on Age

• "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

  Kurt Vonnegut on Age

• "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

  Robert Frost on Age

More quotes by Francis Bacon

• "Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

• "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

• "Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

• "A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."

• "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."