Quotes
Quotes about Age
The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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.
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.
In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
All diseases run into one, old age.
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. [Lat., Continua messe senescit ager.]
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.
