Quotes About Age

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I'm really too young to be feeling this old.

Man does not cease to play because he grows old, he grows old because he ceases to play.

John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

As I've gotten older, I've found that I can have men as friends. I used to not be able to.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

"You're an old man who dresses like a Hooter's waitress."

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!