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Quotes about age

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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
George MacDonald1824–1905Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 624
- Youth
Anyone can get old, all you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx1890–1977
It’s not how old you are, it’s how hard you work at it.
JBJonah Barringtonborn 1941
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope1903–2003
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (8 October 1952)
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Letter to Louise Norcross (late 1872); Letters (1958) p. 499, no. 379
When they tell me I’m too old to do something, I attempt it immediately.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can’t sleep anyhow.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Sleep
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886
You’re never too old to become younger.
Mae West1893–1980
The path to youth takes a whole life.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
- Youth
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cat’s Cradle (1963), Chapter 88
- Laughter
- Maturity
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act II
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1899)In context
- Women