Age Quotes

You never grow old – you become old by not continuing to grow.

When you see an old man amiable, mild, equable, content, and good humored, be sure that in his youth he had been just, generous, and forbearing. In his end he does not lament the past, not dread the future; he is like the evening of a fine day.

If young men had wit and old men strength everything might be well done.

Women never refer to their age until it would be wiser to ignore it.

Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age.

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away.

A woman is no older than she looks.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Eat coconuts while you have teeth.

In this life the old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.