Age Quotes - Quotes about Age

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

"Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age."

"Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error."

"People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older."

"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."

"In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago."

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others."

"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody."

"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."