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Quotes About Age

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
~ Mae West
If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
~ Mark Twain
The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life
~ Patrick Henry
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
~ Philip Roth
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
~ Rachel Hunter
A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
~ Daphne Zuniga
Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.
~ Arjun Rampal
From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.
~ Arthur Wing Pinero
I'm 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?
~ Barry Cryer
A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.
~ Billie Burke
A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
~ Michael Caine
Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
~ Plato
Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.
~ Pope Pius II
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
~ Robert Frost
God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.
~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
~ Laurence Olivier
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
~ Steven Brust
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
~ Trevor McDonald
Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?
~ William Shakespeare