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Age Quotes
"Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." ~ Sidney J. Harris
"I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me" ~ Stephen Fry
"It is not how old you are, but how you are old." ~ Jules Renard
"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places." ~ E. Joseph Crossman
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." ~ Aristotle
"I'm looking forward to looking back on all this" ~ Sandra Knell
"I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age." ~ George Burns
"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do." ~ Bill Watterson
"Old age ain't no place for sissies." ~ Bette Davis
"You're never too old to become younger." ~ Mae West
"There is still no cure for the common birthday." ~ John Glenn
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." ~ Lucille Ball
"I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age." ~ George Burns
"Women are not forgiven for ageing" ~ Jane Fonda
"Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all" ~ Nancy Astor
"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle" ~ Edna Ferber
"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer" ~ Joan Collins
"It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen" ~ Brigitte Bardot
"We turn not older with years, but newer every day" ~ Emily Dickinson
"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." ~ Matt Cartmill
"George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie." ~ Mark Twain
"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have solved this by defying their parents and copying one another." ~ Quentin Crisp
"Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own." ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
"Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it." ~ Bob Phillips
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." ~ John Ciardi
"Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody." ~ Moms Mabley
"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car." ~ Emo Phillips.
"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world." ~ Elvis Presley
"Like mother, like daughter." ~ Ezekiel 16:44
"I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty" ~ Madonna, Entertainer
"When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years." ~ Mark Twain
"You should never have more children than car windows." ~ Erma Bombeck
"Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours." ~ H.L. Mencken
"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world" ~ W.R.Wallace
"I am not young enough to know everything." ~ Oscar Wilde
"George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie." ~ Mark Twain
"Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation." ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life." ~ Robert Byrne
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Contributions to Quotations:
David Shein [06], Clark Moran, Geoffrey K. Braden [05]