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 Frost
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 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 Curtis
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.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.Abraham Lincoln
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.François de La Rochefoucauld
As 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 Pinker
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.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.Georges Clemenceau
Eyes that see do not grow old.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.Chili Davis
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 seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.Rabindranath Tagore
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed?Emily Brontë
Source: Wuthering Heights
I'm not getting old. I'm evolving.Keith Richards
If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.Denis Leary
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.Jennifer Yane
Intelligence is in the head, not in the age.(unknown author)
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.Marie Dressler
It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.Ernest Hemingway
Knowledge 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 Franklin
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 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.Minkukel
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.C.S. Lewis
The idea is to die young as late as possible.Ashley Montagu
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.Oscar Wilde
The older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.Bill Bryson
Source: 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 Hawking
They all thought they could change the world once they got away from their parents.Ian Rankin
Source: 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.
To be old and wise, you must first have to be young and stupid.(unknown author)
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