Quotes about age
264 quotes from 181 people
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford’s lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
Jane Fondaborn 1937Michael Perry. Jane’s wrinkled but Fonda herself now. Sydney Morning Herald, 22 December 1985
Gerald Ford1913–2006Address to the 75th annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Chicago, Illinois (19 August 1974)Life’s Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Synergetics (1975), “The Wellspring of Reality”A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
Paul Gauguin1848–1903The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 68: from his manuscript, known as ‘Cahier pour Aline’ (ca. 1892-1893)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar (6 March 1780)Age childish makes, they say, but ’tis not true;
We’re only genuine children still, in Age’s season!Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Prelude at the Theatre, spoken by Merry-AndrewIn contextA grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
Germaine Greerborn 1939The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause (1991), Introduction
Che Guevara1928–1967Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Vägmärken · Markings (1963), 1950
