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 More about this quote Tags: wisdom advice age old age mischief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: maturity age immaturity adulthood mid-life crisis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are none of us infallible — not even the youngest of us. —W.H. Thompson More about this quote Tags: knowledge error age fallibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. —J. B. Priestley More about this quote Tags: war politics age teenagers adolescents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. —Robert Quillen More about this quote Tags: stories age body Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. —Sydney J. Harris More about this quote Tags: knowledge age arrogance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. —Bob Hope More about this quote Tags: age middle age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. —Lillian Gordy Carter More about this quote Tags: conservation economics age romance lights Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Someday we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. —Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac More about this quote Tags: relationships learning intelligence time age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: wisdom intelligence perception generations age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. —Rupert Brooke More about this quote Tags: love heart age kiss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. —William Butler Yeats More about this quote Tags: heart age distance stars kiss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you’re a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury. —Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper More about this quote Tags: life friendship aging age luxury Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. —George Burns More about this quote Tags: history humor time age old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present? —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: past perception age present Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email