Age
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 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 is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
An old man loved is a winter with flowers.
German proverb
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
Milton
Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.
Mick Jagger
Every smile makes you a day younger.
Chinese proverb
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
Mark Twain
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
Stephen Hawking
I dream of hiking into my old age.
Marlyn Doan
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
I'm not getting old I'm evolving.
Keith Richards
Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
Early experiences will be very valuable later.
Loneliness is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is mature.
Albert Einstein
No one who is young is ever going to be old.
John Steinbeck
Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
Keith Richards
Nothing cannot exist forever.
Stephen Hawking
Old bees yield no honey.
Old is gold.
There are important lessons to be learned from the past.
Old mushroom has young root.
Russian proverb
Old people are pessimists and young people are optimists because pessimists get old when they are 20 and optimists stay young all their life.
Minkukel
The older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Bill Bryson
There is no fool like an old fool.
There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
Stephen Hawking
They all thought they could change the world once they got away from their parents.
Knots & Crosses
Ian Rankin
Time and tide wait for no man.
Delaying a decision will not prevent events from taking place.
To a young heart everything is sport.
Italian proverb
We don't stop hiking because we grow old. We grow old because we stop hiking.
Finis Mitchel
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry
When bees are old they yield no honey.
English
When I dream, I am ageless.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
When I'm 33, I quit.
Mick Jagger
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold, and commerce settles on every tree.
William Blake
When the snake is old, the frog will tease him.
Persian proverb
When you’re green, you’re growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.
Ray Kroc
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
You are never too old to learn.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Ogden Nash
You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.
Nikki Sixx
Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young …
Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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