Famous Quotes

"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

Horace Walpole 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 Horace Walpole

• "Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."

• "Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."

• "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

• "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

• "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."