Age Quotes

» An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

» To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

» If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

» Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

» You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

» Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

» Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

» Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

» Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

» Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

» To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

» While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

» Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

» The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

» Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

» Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

» It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

» No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

» I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

» Old age is no place for sissies.

» After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

» Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

» In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

» When you become senile, you won't know it.

» Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

» Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

» Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

» The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

» Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

» The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

» Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

» Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

» Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

» You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

» I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

» The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

» The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

» It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

» So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

» The trick is growing up without growing old.

» Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

» Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

» Old age is a shipwreck.

» Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

» How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

» Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

» Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

» The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

» Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

» The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

» Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

» The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

» More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

» Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

» Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

» Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

» A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

» Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

» On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

» Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

» There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

» I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

» We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

» When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

» He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

» Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

» Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

» Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

» Youth is wasted on the young.

» You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

» Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

» The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

» Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

» A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

» Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

» Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

» You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

» The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

» It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

» Before marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper.

» A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

» In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

» When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

» The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

» Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

» I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

» None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

» Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

» Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

» Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

» Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

» A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

» Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

» No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

» No man is ever old enough to know better.

» The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

» A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

» The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

» Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

» Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

» Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

» Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

» A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.

» Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

» We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

» Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

» Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

» Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

» The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

» A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

» To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

» There is still no cure for the common birthday.

» Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

» Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

» One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

» You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

» Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

» Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

» If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

» In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

» True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

» I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

» I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

» The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

» I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

» The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

» I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

» Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

» I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

» Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

» He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

» Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

» As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

» As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

» Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

» Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

» Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

» Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

» A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

» A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

» Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

» There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

» A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

» If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

» When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

» Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

» How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

» It takes a long time to become young.

» A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

» 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. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

» The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

» The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

» In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

» When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

» Age considers; youth ventures.

» All diseases run into one, old age.

» All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

» I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.

» I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

» Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

» In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

» It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

» A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

» Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

» When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

» Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

» Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

» How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

» Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

» My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

» Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

» Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

» Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

» Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

» Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

» Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

» Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

» Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

» I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

» Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

» When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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

» I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

» A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

» A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

» Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Search:Quotes |Authors

Who Said It?

Who Said: "Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." Click To See

Daily Famous Quote

"I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it." - Shmuel Y. Agnon

Quotes by Author

• - Aesop
• - Woody Allen
• - Albert Einstein
• - Robert Frost
• - Mahatma Gandhi
• - Stanley Kubrick
• - Groucho Marx
• - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
• - John Wayne
• - Oscar Wilde
• - Eric Hoffer
• - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• - Sigmund Freud
• - Sir Winston Churchill
• - More Authors...

Quotes by Topic

• - Friendship
• - Funny
• - Love
• - More Topics...