More quotations tagged with “age”
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
—P.G. Wodehouse
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
—Bertrand Russell
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
—Cyril Connolly