Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

aging

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. 81 sayings from William Shakespeare

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. 18 more wisdom & wit from Washington Irving

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. 18 more views from Washington Irving

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. 21 thoughts from William Wordsworth

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. 8 quotes from Hosea Ballou

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. 42 quotes from Josh Billings

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. 11 views from Nicolas Chamfort

Old age is no place for sissies. 21 other views from Bette Davis

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. 18 sayings from Washington Irving

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. 6 views from Mary Wollstonecraft

The golden age is before us, not behind us. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. 21 more quotes from William Wordsworth

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. 38 thoughts from William Hazlitt

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. 17 quotes from John Burroughs

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. 3 other views from A. C. Benson

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. 5 other sayings from Martha Graham

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. 22 other wisdom & wit from Robert Browning

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. 45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

Age considers youth ventures. 35 thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore

All diseases run into one, old age. 135 other wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. 11 quotes from Salvador Dali

Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. 135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

If youth knew if age could. 26 more thoughts from Sigmund Freud

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. 3 other sayings from Angela Carter

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked. 22 quotes from James Dyson

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. 14 sayings from Golda Meir

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. 7 views from Thomas Moore

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. 135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. 15 quotes from Orson Welles

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. 2 thoughts from Randall Jarrell

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. 2 quotes from Edmond de Goncourt

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. 21 other sayings from Karl Marx

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age. 6 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Spock

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. 46 other quotes from John F. Kennedy

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. 22 quotes from Robert Browning

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. 22 other views from Robert Browning

Where children are, there is the golden age. 10 thoughts from Novalis

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. 24 thoughts from Joseph Addison

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. 26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. 21 thoughts from Mignon McLaughlin

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. 5 thoughts from Brigham Young

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. 20 wisdom & wit from Christopher Lasch

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. 26 other views from Frank Lloyd Wright

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. 28 views from William Butler Yeats

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot. 7 other quotes from Judy Garland

It is not well to make great changes in old age. 9 more wisdom & wit from Charles Spurgeon

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. 3 wisdom & wit from Irvin S. Cobb

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. 47 other quotes from George Orwell

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! 15 other wisdom & wit from Pierre Corneille

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. 15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. 31 other quotes from Helen Keller

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. 11 more wisdom & wit from David Ogilvy

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later. 21 quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. 10 other quotes from William Ralph Inge

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. 18 thoughts from Pearl S. Buck

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter. 9 thoughts from Satchel Paige

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. 18 quotes from Don Marquis

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age. 16 more quotes from Douglas Horton

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. 19 other quotes from Marshall McLuhan

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. 8 quotes from Raymond Chandler

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. 14 quotes from Andre Maurois

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. 5 wisdom & wit from Aphra Behn

Every man over forty is a scoundrel. 115 other sayings from George Bernard Shaw

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. 14 quotes from Andre Maurois

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. 35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely. 2 other wisdom & wit from Camille Pissarro

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. 19 other views from Marshall McLuhan

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. 31 quotes from Eric Hoffer

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. 18 more sayings from Don Marquis

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. 117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. 18 more wisdom & wit from Don Marquis

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. 19 quotes from E. B. White

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. 19 thoughts from Marshall McLuhan

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you? 12 more quotes from Casey Stengel

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. 11 quotes from William Osler

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. 45 more quotes from Aldous Huxley

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. 19 sayings from E. B. White

The trick is growing up without growing old. 12 quotes from Casey Stengel

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. 3 quotes from Margaret Walker

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. 9 sayings from George Sand

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. 45 views from Aldous Huxley

A woman has the age she deserves. 16 more quotes from Coco Chanel

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. 15 wisdom & wit from Walter Scott

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. 2 quotes from Knut Hamsun

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. 14 views from Ogden Nash

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. 14 thoughts from Ogden Nash

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. 13 other views from Herman Melville

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. 3 more sayings from Maggie Kuhn

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. 15 other wisdom & wit from Walter Scott

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. 22 thoughts from William Feather

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. 17 wisdom & wit from John Dryden

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. 19 more wisdom & wit from Percy Bysshe Shelley

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. 22 wisdom & wit from William Feather

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. 11 other quotes from Lucille Ball

They that have lived a single day have lived an age. 26 sayings from Jean de la Bruyere

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. 12 quotes from Bernard Baruch

Women lie about their age men lie about their income. 22 more sayings from William Feather

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man. 12 other quotes from Miguel de Unamuno

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. 4 sayings from Agatha Christie

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. 23 other quotes from T. S. Eliot

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. 24 wisdom & wit from Henri Frederic Amiel

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. 26 views from Theodor Adorno

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. 7 thoughts from Pope Paul VI

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. 90 more quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. 60 more quotes from H. L. Mencken

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?' 13 other views from Sydney J. Harris

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. 90 more wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism. 6 other quotes from Francis Parker Yockey

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. 90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. 9 views from J. B. Priestley

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. 60 more quotes from H. L. Mencken

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going. 9 more sayings from J. B. Priestley

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. 14 other quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

We pay when old for the excesses of youth. 9 sayings from J. B. Priestley

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. 8 more quotes from Ezra Pound

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. 4 views from James Truslow Adams

Age is not important unless you're a cheese. 8 wisdom & wit from Helen Hayes

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. 24 more quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. 100 views from Mahatma Gandhi

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. 33 more wisdom & wit from Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on. 6 other quotes from Lillie Langtry

I must confess, I was born at a very early age. 29 thoughts from Groucho Marx

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. 3 views from Henry A. Wallace

It takes a long time to become young. 29 quotes from Pablo Picasso

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. 8 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Browne

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. 11 quotes from Graham Greene

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. 100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. 30 other views from Eleanor Roosevelt

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. 18 sayings from John Adams

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. 24 wisdom & wit from Adlai E. Stevenson

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. 8 other quotes from Helen Hayes

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. 2 sayings from Alfred Nobel

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. 9 other sayings from Hannah Arendt

Youth has no age. 29 views from Pablo Picasso

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. 3 wisdom & wit from Jim Bishop

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. 98 views from Mark Twain

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. 52 thoughts from Albert Camus

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. 13 other quotes from Andrew Carnegie

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15. 14 views from Hedy Lamarr

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. 78 quotes from Voltaire

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. 25 views from C. S. Lewis

I shall not grow conservative with age. 9 quotes from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. 12 other quotes from James Broughton

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. 25 sayings from Will Durant

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. 19 quotes from Jonathan Swift

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. 19 other thoughts from Jonathan Swift

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. 22 quotes from Andre Gide

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. 98 thoughts from Mark Twain

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. 9 quotes from Pope John XXIII

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. 8 quotes from Franklin P. Adams

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. 19 quotes from Jonathan Swift

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. 6 thoughts from Felix Frankfurter

Old age is a shipwreck. 19 thoughts from Charles de Gaulle

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. 3 quotes from Leon Trotsky

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. 25 quotes from Will Durant

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. 8 quotes from Franklin P. Adams

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. 13 more quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. 29 other quotes from Friedrich Schiller

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff. 2 more quotes from Monica Edwards

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. 78 other wisdom & wit from Voltaire

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. 13 quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. 12 views from George MacDonald

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. 9 views from Willa Cather

No man is ever old enough to know better. 4 other views from Holbrook Jackson

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. 26 quotes from Emily Dickinson

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. 3 more quotes from Louis Kronenberger

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. 58 sayings from Thomas Carlyle

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. 14 more quotes from James Thurber

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. 8 sayings from Matthew Arnold

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age. 46 views from George Santayana

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. 5 thoughts from Max Lerner

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. 6 views from Norman Douglas

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. 67 thoughts from Francis Bacon

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. 11 wisdom & wit from Douglas MacArthur

Age, like distance lends a double charm. 5 other quotes from Oliver Herford

At my age flowers scare me. 21 wisdom & wit from George Burns

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. 75 views from Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age. 75 more quotes from Aristotle

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. 6 more sayings from Geoffrey Chaucer

God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. 10 sayings from John Donne

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. 23 thoughts from Paul Cezanne

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. 23 wisdom & wit from Paul Cezanne

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. 21 sayings from George Burns

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. 67 quotes from Francis Bacon

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. 21 views from George Burns

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill. 21 thoughts from George Burns

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere. 21 sayings from George Burns

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. 21 quotes from George Burns

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. 14 quotes from Charles de Montesquieu

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. 40 views from William James

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. 30 quotes from Virginia Woolf

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. 30 quotes from Virginia Woolf

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. 67 other sayings from Francis Bacon

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. 23 more thoughts from Paul Cezanne

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere. 21 quotes from George Burns

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. 13 more views from Alexander Hamilton

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. 29 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. 29 more quotes from W. Somerset Maugham

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. 6 views from Edith Wharton

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. 9 more quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says. 8 more quotes from Jane Seymour

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. 17 quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. 21 quotes from George Burns

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. 9 quotes from Walter Savage Landor

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. 37 more quotes from Edmund Burke

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. 30 sayings from Charles Caleb Colton

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. 3 quotes from Lascelles Abercrombie

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. 23 other quotes from Helen Rowland

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. 14 wisdom & wit from Stendhal

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. 36 other views from Lord Byron

What is an adult? A child blown up by age. 12 sayings from Simone de Beauvoir

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. 29 sayings from W. Somerset Maugham

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. 67 views from Francis Bacon

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. 21 other views from George Burns

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. 21 sayings from Anais Nin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. 21 more wisdom & wit from Anais Nin

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. 32 thoughts from Michel de Montaigne

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. 4 quotes from Jack Benny

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. 11 quotes from James Joyce

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. 3 views from Lydia M. Child

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age. 73 other views from Victor Hugo

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. 11 quotes from James Joyce

Now is the age of anxiety. 21 quotes from W. H. Auden

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. 7 other quotes from Lawrence Durrell

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. 26 sayings from Charles Dickens

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. 7 quotes from Jeremy Bentham

We are always the same age inside. 31 sayings from Gertrude Stein

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. 5 sayings from Thomas More

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. 6 other sayings from Sinclair Lewis

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. 50 other wisdom & wit from Robert Frost

Age does not matter if the matter does not age. 18 wisdom & wit from Jean Paul

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. 105 sayings from Albert Einstein

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. 2 quotes from Gene Fowler

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. 7 views from B. F. Skinner

Live your life and forget your age. 18 other sayings from Jean Paul

Old age is the verdict of life. 5 wisdom & wit from Amelia Barr

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. 8 more quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck. 7 quotes from Gloria Swanson

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. 18 other quotes from Jean Paul

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? 16 more views from Erich Fromm

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. 5 more wisdom & wit from Tom Wilson