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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To be old and wise, you must first have to be young and stupid.
(unknown author)We don't stop hiking because we grow old. We grow old because we stop hiking.
Finis MitchelWe don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard ShawWhat I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave BarryWhen bees are old they yield no honey.
When I dream, I am ageless.
Elizabeth CoatsworthWhen I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Mark TwainWhen I'm 33, I quit.
Mick JaggerWhen nations grow old, the arts grow cold, and commerce settles on every tree.
William BlakeWhen the snake is old, the frog will tease him.
When you're green, you're growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
Ray KrocWisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom WilsonYou are never too old to learn.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les BrownYou are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Ogden NashYou can grow old without growing up.
(unknown author)You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.
Chris BrownYou can't put off being young until you retire.
Philip LarkinYou 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 SixxYou know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob HopeYou're never grown up.
Keith RichardsYouth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Quoted: Dumbledore
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.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
Samuel Ullman