Quotes about age
264 quotes from 181 people
I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 56.Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Dylan Thomas1914–1953Fern Hill (1946), St. 6Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky1879–1940Trotsky’s Diary in Exile — 1935 (1958)I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I am not old yet!
Tina Turner1939–2023I, Tina (1986), p. 202
Mark Twain1835–1910“Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington”, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John PaulWhen I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain1835–1910Autobiography of Mark Twain, Mark Twain Project edition, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210- Mark Twain1835–1910Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 52, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
I was never a child. I was always a menopausal woman within a child’s body.
Tracey Ullmanborn 1959Tracey Takes On… (1996–99)- ?UnattributedOften credited to Mark Twain
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
?UnattributedOften credited to Abraham LincolnYou are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
?UnattributedOften credited to C. S. Lewis
