Age Quotes

He is competent from the age of 16 or 17 thenceforth for 35 years. After 50 his performance is of poor quality, the intervals between are wide, and its satisfactions of no great value to either party.

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

There cannot live an unhappier creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

Old men must die, or the word would grow moldy, would only breed the past again.

Threescore years and ten! It is the Scriptural statute of limitations. After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling’s military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member […]

Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself-a lad of about 19.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.