Age quotes

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.'

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.