Age Quotes

As long as you’re green you’re growing, as soon as you’re ripe you start to rot.

Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty.

Be a father. Your son has friends his own age; no boy needs a forty-four year old “pal”.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

I’ve never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Sophocles wrote his Oedipus at 90 years of age; Pope Leo XII inaugurated most of his enlightenment policy after he was 70; Titian painted his masterpiece, the bronze doors of the sacristy of St. Mark’s at 85. Elihu Root died in 1937 at 92 years of age; he was one of the greatest statesmen America […]

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, – something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book.

Old age is the verdict of life.