| Author |
Quotes |
| Francis Bacon | Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. |
| Francois Voltaire | What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Every man over forty is a scoundrel. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Youth is wasted on the young. |
| George Burns | You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. |
| George Eliot | Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. |
| George Meredith | Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old! |
| George William Curtis | Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years. |
| Germaine De Stael | When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. |
| Golda Meir | Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do. |
| Groucho Marx | Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. |
| H L Mencken | The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. |
| Harrison Ford | You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. |
| Heard In Arkansas | Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas. |
| Helen Rowland | The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. |
| Henri Estienne | If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne. |
| Henri Frederic Amiel | To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. |
| Henry David Thoreau | None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. |
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