Age Quotes

Tranquility is the old man's milk

Thomas Jefferson

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Aeschylus

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

Tom Lehrer

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Andre Maurois

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

Arsene Wenger

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

W. Somerset Maugham

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Helen Hayes

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Plautus

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feather

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Ambrose Bierce

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Doris Day

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

H. L. Mencken

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Jackson Pollock