We do not count a man’s years, until he has nothing
else to count.
- Emerson
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving,
and old age of spending.
- Anne Bradstreet
The first forty years of life give us the text, the next thirty
supply the commentary on it.
- Schopenhauer
In youth the days are short and the years are long; in
old age the years are short and the days are long.
- Panin
Grow up as soon as you can. It pays. The only time you
really live fully is from thirty to sixty.
- Hervey Allen
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life for which the first was made.
- R. Browning
Old men are children for a second time.
- Aristophanes
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young
A man is as old as he’s feeling,
A woman as old as she looks.
- Mortimer Collins
Man has seven ages, but woman has only one age,
after she is thirty-five.
- Shakespeare
Your old man shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see visions.
- Old Testament
As a white candle in a holy place,
So is the beauty of an aged face.
- Joseph Campbell : The Old Woman
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to
trust, and old authors to read.
- Francis Bacon
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
To grow older is a new venture in itself.
- J.W. Goethe
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood
chews hours and swallows minutes.
- Malcolm De Chazal
Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in
the morning.
- Bob Hope
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned
everything. You only have to remember it.
- George Burns
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty- five to fifty- five, she needs a good
personality. From fifty- five on, she needs good cash.
- Sophie Tucker
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real
age. A woman, who would tell one that, would tell one
anything.
- Oscar Wilde
I have lived long enough; my way of life
Is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf.
- Shakespeare : Macbeth V. 3
The old believe everything; the middle- aged suspect
everything; the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is
important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.
It’s the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
