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Quotes About Age

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
~ Dagobert D. Runes
I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.
~ Fred Astaire
When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
~ Gelett Burgess
The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A man who says he can see through a woman is missing a lot.-Groucho Marx A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
~ Groucho Marx
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
~ Bram Stoker
Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
~ Haniel Long
Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.
~ Aeschylus
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
~ Alain de Botton
... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.
~ Albert Einstein
Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.
~ Aristotle
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
~ Berthold Auerbach
Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.
~ Burt Shotton
I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
~ Francesca Annis
For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.
~ Garrett Fort
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
~ Tennessee Williams
You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.
~ Tennessee Williams
This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.
~ Teri Hatcher
Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.
~ Terri Guillemets
Only after the warrior has brought about the ninety degree shift can he in all honesty accept the title of Toltec. Thus the career of true-blooded Toltecs is short by any standard, and yet it is time enough in which to rejoice in their full power. In having chosen to walk the path of freedom warriors know that they cannot defeat old age, but only fight it off impeccably until death taps them.
~ Théun Mares