Quotes in Age

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.


I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

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Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.


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.


At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.


Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?


The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.


I am not young enough to know everything.

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