Age Quotes

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Ageism's very strong against women in our society. I should bring in to you all the checks I get from people telling me to dye my hair, that I look like the great gray ape of the Congress. And I keep saying, in the ape community, they revere their gray apes.

- Pat Schroeder

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

- Paul Newman

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

- Voltaire

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I want to die young at a ripe old age.

- Ashley Montagu

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The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful.

- Lady Diana Cooper

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

- Henry David Thoreau

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

- Thomas Jefferson

Though an old man I am but a young gardener.

- Thomas Jefferson

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.

- Pearl S. Buck

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

- Pearl S. Buck

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

- Pearl S. Buck

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

- Pearl S. Buck

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

- Pearl S. Buck

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.

- Helen Keller

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People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger

- Albert Einstein

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How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

- Robert McAfee Brown

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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young -- or slender.

- William James

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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

- Willa Cather

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

- Willa Cather

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

- Anais Nin

Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.

- Jeanne Moreau

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - attributed in error

- Mark Twain

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

- Eric Hoffer

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We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.