Age Quotes

Always be nice to those younger than you because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one?s self: the work is done. But just as one says that the answer comes: The race is over but the work never is done while the power to work remains. The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate Look we for any kinship with the stars.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

We neither get better or worse as we get older but more like ourselves.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world but he know he cant.

Boys will be boys and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Vane young in years but in sage counsel old Than whom a better senator neer held The helm of Rome when gowns not arms repelled The fierce Epirot and the African bold Whether to settle peace or to unfold The drift of hollow states hard to be spelled Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her two main nerves iron and gold In all her equipage; besides to know Both spiritual power and civil what each means What severs each thou hast learned which few have done: The bounds of either sword to thee we owe: Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace and reckons thee her eldest son.

The young man who has not wept is a savage and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.