Age Quotes - Page 5

• The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Growth, Half

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  The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspiration, Men, Firsts

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.178

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• I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Freedom, Women, Equality

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.66, Variocity

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• For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

  Edgar Guest

  Men, Three, Bent

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• Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Time, Children

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• Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Body, Fifty, Aging

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• Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Time, Foxes

  Benjamin Franklin (1963). “The Autobiography, and Other Writings: With Selections from Poor Richard's Almanac and Papers Relating to the Junto”

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• Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

  Arthur Golden

  Girl, Stupid, Silly

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• Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Birthday, Happiness, Confidence

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• She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

  J. B. Priestley

  Beauty, Years, 50th Birthday

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• For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Years, December

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• At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Time, Fighting, Men

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• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  Saint Augustine

  Funny, Witty, Philosophical

  Confessions bk. 8, ch. 7 (397 - 398)

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• Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

  Bob Hope

  Birthday, Morning, Believe

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• How young can you die of old age?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Birthday, Humor

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• The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

  Colleen McCullough

  Birthday, Appreciation, Women

  "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.

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• When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

  A. C. Benson

  Long, Littles, Aging

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• Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Birthday, Gloves

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• A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

  Thomas Hardy

  Beautiful, Ugly, Aging

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• 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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Fear, Women

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• If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Tree, Body, Mature

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• It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

  Josh Billings

  Fall, Fruit Juice, Squash

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• 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

  Time, Memories, Bears

  Points of View Ch. 1

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• When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

  Hugo Black

  Funny, Sports, Humor

  Quoted in Think, Feb. 1963

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