Age Quotes - page 3
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
The love where Death has set his seal,
Nor age can chill, nor rival steal,
Nor falsehood disavow.
The Age of Miracles is forever here!
My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
We are always the same age inside.
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.