Quotes About Age

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

For men, after a certain age, it gets hard to make new friends.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.