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

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Soren Kierkegaard

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Elizabeth Taylor

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake

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

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.
Ogden Nash

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

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.
T. S. Eliot

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.
Salvador Dali

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

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

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Jonathan Swift

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
Giacomo Casanova

We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein

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

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
Colin Powell