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At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment
Henry grattan (1746-1820) Irish Politician
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.
If youth but knew; if age but could.
Henri Estienne(1531-1598) French scholar, publisher
What youth deemed crystal, age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, But if there were fifteen months in every year, I’d only be 48. That’s the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, Illustration.
What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day what his youth took a year to hold.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet.
A man’s as old as he’s feeling, a woman as old as she looks.
Mortimer Collins (1827-1876) English novelist, poet
When a woman tells your age it’s all right to look surprised, but don’t scowl.
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) American dramatist, wit
A lady of a “certain age” which means Certainly aged.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Poet.
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to the ages of other women.
Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566) mistress of Henri II of France, patron.
When women pass thirty, they first forget their age; when forty, they forget that they ever remembered it.
Ninon de Lenclos (1620-1705) French society lady, wit.
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
Ambrose Bierce (1824-1914) American author.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Bulwer.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Pindar.
How beautiful can time with goodness make an old man look.
Jerrold.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
J.P. Senn.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon treatment and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Tryon Edwards.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called old for the first time.
O.W. Holmes.
The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of I t to unlearn will be found much greater.
South.
Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.
J.P.Senn
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
Pliny.
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
Pope.
Old men’s eyes are like old men’s memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
George Eliot.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Swift.
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry out age along with us.
Hazlitt.
Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
Mad. Swetchine.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Swift.
Henry grattan (1746-1820) Irish Politician
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.
If youth but knew; if age but could.
Henri Estienne(1531-1598) French scholar, publisher
What youth deemed crystal, age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, But if there were fifteen months in every year, I’d only be 48. That’s the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, Illustration.
What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day what his youth took a year to hold.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet.
A man’s as old as he’s feeling, a woman as old as she looks.
Mortimer Collins (1827-1876) English novelist, poet
When a woman tells your age it’s all right to look surprised, but don’t scowl.
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) American dramatist, wit
A lady of a “certain age” which means Certainly aged.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Poet.
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to the ages of other women.
Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566) mistress of Henri II of France, patron.
When women pass thirty, they first forget their age; when forty, they forget that they ever remembered it.
Ninon de Lenclos (1620-1705) French society lady, wit.
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
Ambrose Bierce (1824-1914) American author.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Bulwer.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Pindar.
How beautiful can time with goodness make an old man look.
Jerrold.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
J.P. Senn.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon treatment and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Tryon Edwards.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called old for the first time.
O.W. Holmes.
The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; and as it is the unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of I t to unlearn will be found much greater.
South.
Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.
J.P.Senn
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
Pliny.
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
Pope.
Old men’s eyes are like old men’s memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
George Eliot.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Swift.
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry out age along with us.
Hazlitt.
Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
Mad. Swetchine.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Swift.
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