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1. "There is no such thing as the old age of the wise."

Sophocles

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

2. "At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings."

Gérard Depardieu

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Truth and Falsity

3. "When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."

Prue Leith

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

4. "Life begins at forty."

Walter B. Pitkin, "Life begins at forty"

Quotations about: Life and Death

5. "Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to "that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress", and you find that you're the one in the green dress."

Lois Wyse, "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"

6. "Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby"

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

7. "In America, every female under fifty calls herself a "girl.""

H.E. Bates, "Summertime"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

8. "Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up."

Joseph Barth

Quotations about: Marriage

9. "You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."

Anouk Aimée

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

10. "I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own."

Margaret Atwood

11. "Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Revolt of the Masses"

12. "Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul."

André Maurois, "The Art of Living"

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

André Maurois, "The Art of Living"

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

14. "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, "Essays"

Quotations about: Marriage -:- Woman and Man

15. "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

Francis Bacon, "Essays"

Quotations about: Success and Fame

16. "Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own."

Doug Larson

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

17. "The purpose of life is to fight maturity."

Dick Werthimer

Quotations about: Various

18. "The situation of our youth is not mysterious. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models."

James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name"

19. "From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture."

William Somerset Maugham, "Cakes and Ale"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

20. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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21. "Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

George Orwell, "Collected Essays"

22. "When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners."

Zora Neale Hurston, "Moses Man of the Mountain"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

23. "The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

Denis Waitly

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Education

24. "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

John Barrymore

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia

25. "After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies."

Cynthia Ozick

26. "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."

Charles Wadsworth

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

27. "In youth we learn; in age we understand."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Quotations about: Education

28. "A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: Art and Culture

29. "Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

30. "Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

31. "All diseases run into one: old age."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

32. "It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth."

Vincent Van Gogh

33. "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."

Cyril Connolly

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

34. "Gray hair is God's graffiti."

Bill Cosby

35. "Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."

Kin Hubbard

36. "Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."

Luis Bunuel

37. "Age is the perfect extinguisher for the fire of youth."

Navjot Singh Sidhu

38. "The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys."

Anon.

Quotations about: Various

39. "A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his doctor instead of by the police."

Anon.

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

40. "You can only be young once but you can be immature forever."

Dave Barry

41. "A young person knows the rules but the old person knows the exceptions."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

42. "Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter."

Satchel Paige

43. "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."

Erma Bombeck

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

44. "Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you."

Fran Lebowitz

Quotations about: Science and Technology

45. "You have reached middle age when the phone rings on Saturday night, you pray it isn't for you."

Ogden Nash

46. "What is an adult? A child blown up by age."

Simone De Beauvoir

47. "To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

48. "Each day, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Let us strive to make the finest investment we can."

Charles Swindoll

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Memory

49. "I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?"

Fran Lebowitz

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

50. "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."

James Thurber

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