Age Quotes

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn

Business, Important, Whole

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

May, Old, Whatever

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

Respect, Old, Profound

I get all fired up about aging in America.
Willard Scott

America, Aging, Fired

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day

Knowledge, Grow, Middle

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
Susan Anton

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

Men, Lovely, Appreciate

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark

Life, Old, Days

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin

Respect, Nothing, Old

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Bob Wells

Old, Body, Opinions

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
Marvin Davis

Men, Older, Expensive

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
William Ernest Hocking

Work, Forward, Moving

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Sense, Common, Eighteen

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

Confusion, Opinion, Means

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

Confusion, Means, Perfection

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Mind, Thinking, Brain

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

Women, Best, Woman

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

Life, Born, Approach

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
Claude Pepper

Funny, Him, Year

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Yourself, Person

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Morning, Evening

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad Ali

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

Cannot, Youth, Loves

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

Country, Liberty, Priest

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Helen Keller

Next, Heresy, Orthodoxy

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