Age

19 quotes.

• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

  Samuel Ullman

• The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H.L. Mencken

• A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.

  Anonymous

• Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

  Jeanne Moreau

• Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

• If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools.

  Claudia Young

• In youth we learn; in age we understand.

  Ebner-Eschenbach

• Make new friends, but keep old friends. One is silver, the other is gold. All of them are just like jewels. Age will mellow and refine them.

  Anonymous

• Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

  Lactantius Firmianus

• Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

  Anonymous

• The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

  Aldous Huxley, "The Devils of Loudun"

• The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

  Marie Edgeworth

• The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

  William James

• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

• We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

  Jeff Marder

• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

  Abigail Van Buren

• This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

  David Brinkley

• You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

  Ronald Reagan

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