Age Quotes - Page 23

• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Beautiful, Art

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• The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Heart, Knaves, Youth

  "The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author".

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• Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Complaining, Generations

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.266

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  I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

  John F. Kennedy

  Writing, Army, America

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• A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Short Life, Men, Order

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• How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Retirement, Crowns, Ease

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 99

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• Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Children, Ignorance, Growth

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart.

  Margaret of Valois

  Heart, Wrinkles, Care

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• Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Joy

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• Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Opposites, Long, Looks

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.109

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• Old age is life's parody.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Parody, Old Age

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

  Bette Davis

  Couple, Done, Want

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• There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.

  William Hazlitt

  Cutting, Years, Youth

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• My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

  Bertrand Russell

  Advice, Would Be, Firsts

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• True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Wise, Memories, Spring

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.2

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• Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

  Charles Kingsley

  Grief, First Love, Men

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• The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Victory, Weight

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.404, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Brides, Old Age, Seeking

  Joyce Kilmer (1911). “Summer of Love”

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• Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway,
  The passion and infirmity of age.

  James Anthony Froude

  Passion, Bears, Riches

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• Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men,
  Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

  Horace

  Boys, Men, Anxiety

  Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

  Ronald Blythe

  Funny, Book, Names

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• You are never too old to become younger!

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

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• Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Aging, Old People, Young And Old

  "A sad affair" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2005.

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• One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Truth

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 1

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