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Age Quotes
Age Quotations
Welcome to our collection of age quotes and age quotations. These were the funniest and most intelligent things we could find that people have said about age and ageing. Hope you enjoy them.
"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
"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:
If you want to contribute to our list of age quotes and age quotations, please send the words, who said them - with as much detail as you can; why it was said (or not said), when, to whom ... whatever you can. I always acknowledge any help.
Contributions to Quotations:
David Shein [06], Clark Moran, Geoffrey K. Braden [05]
This page was updated on January 2, 2012.