Age Quotes

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?

In old age, one should do something monumental.

Oh, I am her majesty’s maid, And her charms are beginning to fade, I can sit in the sun and look just twenty-one, While she’s thirty-six in the shade.

You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Age considers; youth ventures.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day’s long.

We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.

Personally, I intend to take Aristotle’s advice literally: he says that coyness serves as an ornament in youth and a defect in old age.