Age(Related Subjects: Time, Birth, Death, Children)

• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. - Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. - Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
• The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
• You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. - Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
• Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. - Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'
• Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
• To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965), 1940
• There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. - Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
• Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. - Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
• The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. - Doris Lessing, O Magazine, October 2003
• The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.- Doug Larson
• I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'- Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
• With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), O Magazine, October 2003
• Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.- Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945), The Woman Within, 1954
• I grow more intense as I age. Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003
• The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
• Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. - George Burns (1896 - 1996)
• It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. George Sand (1804 - 1876)
• Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
• About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. - Gloria Pitzer, in Reader's Digest, 1979
• Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. - Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
• A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. - Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
• Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. - Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
• To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. - Karl von Bonstetten
• Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. Lillian Carter, in her 80s
• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood. - Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
• I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. - Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988), 1980
• The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
• No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to. Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-04-04