Quotes About Age

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72

Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

I'm an old man now and have had a great many problems. Most of them never happened.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

that dismal prison house within whose dungeons so many young faces put on the wrinkles of age

Age is a thing about mind over matter: if you don't mind it doesn't matter.

old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.

For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure.

Now let us see what the philosophers say. Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St. Petersburg.

No! You mean you're the late CHarlemagne; you must be six or seven hundred years old, at the very least. Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.

You mean you're the late Charlemagne; you must be six or seven hundred years old, at the very least. Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude.

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

There was a tolerably fair sprinkling of young folks, and another fair sprinkling of gentlemen and ladies who were non-committal as to age, being neither actually old or absolutely young.

So I cried a little, which was natural, I suppose, for one of my age.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little." Mark Twain

But if Juliet's such a young gal, duke, my peeled head and my white whiskers is goin' to look oncommon odd on her, maybe." "No, don't you worry; these country jakes won't ever think of that.

We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or another. Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.

Consider well the proportion of things: it is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.

I thought you might be too old for such a tale, but maybe no one is.

Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother and myself will never divorce. It's uneconomic and, at my age, usually unnecessary.

It's a drag, not being young, but at least I don't have to take a test tomorrow morning.

The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.