We are getting older every day, so better remember that “there is no fool like an old fool”. This page is a collection of proverbs and quotes on age and ageing.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert FrostA fool at forty is a fool forever.
If a person hasn't matured by the age of 40, they never will.A man is as old as he feels.
If you are fit and healthy it doesn't matter how old you are.Age brings experience, and a good mind wisdom.
Age improves with mead, even more than mead improves with age.
(unknown author)Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
George William CurtisAge is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
Jackie Joyner-KerseeAn old man loved is a winter with flowers.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham LincolnAs one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
François de La RochefoucauldAs people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline - the illusion of the good old days.
Steven PinkerChildhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
MiltonDon't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.
Mick JaggerEvery smile makes you a day younger.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges ClemenceauEyes that see do not grow old.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili DavisHow stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
Mark TwainI am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
Stephen HawkingI dream of hiking into my old age.
Marlyn DoanI live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert EinsteinI seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Rabindranath TagoreI wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed?
Emily BrontëSource: Wuthering Heights
I'm not getting old. I'm evolving.
Keith RichardsIf you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.
Denis LearyInside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
Jennifer YaneIntelligence is in the head, not in the age.
(unknown author)It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Marie DresslerIt takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.
Ernest HemingwayKnowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
Early experiences will be very valuable later.Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Benjamin FranklinLoneliness is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is mature.
Albert EinsteinNo one who is young is ever going to be old.
John SteinbeckNobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
Keith RichardsNothing cannot exist forever.
Stephen HawkingOld age is a disease that you die from.
Old bees yield no honey.
Old is gold.
There are important lessons to be learned from the past.Old mushroom has young root.
Old people are pessimists and young people are optimists because pessimists get old when they are 20 and optimists stay young all their life.
MinkukelSome day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. LewisThe idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley MontaguThe old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar WildeThe older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. MenckenThe older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.
Bill BrysonSource: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
There is no fool like an old fool.
There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
Stephen HawkingThey all thought they could change the world once they got away from their parents.
Ian RankinSource: Knots & Crosses
Time and tide wait for no man.
Delaying a decision will not prevent events from taking place.To a young heart everything is sport.