Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. – Mason Cooley
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. – Francis Schaeffer
Not even old age knows how to love death. – Sophocles
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. – Fidel Castro
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving
I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14… I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write. – John Irving
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. – Margaret Atwood
Age carries all things away, even the mind. – Virgil
Age steals away all things, even the mind. – Virgil
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. – Baltasar Gracian
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. – Charles Caleb Colton
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. – Satyajit Ray
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. – George Burns
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? – Dennis Prager
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. – Desiderius Erasmus
People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. – Christopher Hitchens
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. – Dave Barry
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. – Jean Paul
God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. – John Donne
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. – Jonathan Swift
