Quotes about age
264 quotes from 181 people
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950Social Studies (1981), “Tips for Teens”.I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
George Orwell1903–1950“Extracts from a Manuscript Notebook” (17 April 1949), The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4 (1968)
Oscar Wilde1854–1900A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
- SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Strictly Personal (1953), “Purely Personal Prejudices”
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
People who say you’re just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists, p. 242 Stray Sayings
