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Quotes about age

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My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.
Timothy Leary1920–1996The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
- Advice
- Youth
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essays, Book III, Ch. 2, Of Repentance
- Truth & Lies
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
- Youth
A man’s personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam’s ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855Journals IV A 87 (1843)
- Maturity
- Truth & Lies
Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them — the one, in fact, which is not a mask.
W. H. Auden1907–1973Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
- Youth
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot — we inhale from our Bartlett’s.
Rod Serling1924–1975Speech at Moorpark College, Moorpark, California (December 3, 1968).
- Quotations
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Patrick Rothfussborn 1973The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 12, “Puzzle Pieces Fitting” (p. 88)
- Children
- Youth
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing1919–2013The Sunday Times (London, 10 May 1992)
- Change
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
- Life & Death
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch1870–1965On his 85th birthday, as quoted in The Observer [London] (21 August 1955)
- Comedy
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Gloria Steinem1934–2026Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 377
- Women
I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 56.
- Maturity
It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.
Hippocrates460–370 BCThe Law, 3.
- Maturity
- Time
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Gertrude Stein1874–1946Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (22 May 1925), published in Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up (1945)
- Change
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946“Clissold” (1927); appeared in the Nation and Athenaeum (1927)
- Money