Quotes About Age

Few people know how to be old.

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

An old codger, rampant, and still learning.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Yes, I'm 68, but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke, so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit, you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the prime of my life. Retire? Retire to what?

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Actually, being sixty-five isn't so bad. As a matter of fact I rather like being called a sexagenarian. At this time of life it sounds like flattery.

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny?

I wouldn't say someone is old just because his social security is in Roman numerals or because Mozart played at his senior prom.

We've reached an age that when construction workers stare at us it's because they figure we might be considering a remodeling job.

You're only young once, but you can always be immature.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

He is an old bore; even the grave yawns for him.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

For him, any wine dated before four o'clock in the afternoon is vintage.

Men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.

A fool's head never whitens.

There is no chance for old fools.

You men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are the fools.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.