Quotes on Age
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
Henry Grattan (1746-1820) Irish politician
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
If youth but knew; if age but could.
Henri Estienne (1531-1598) French scholar, publisher
What youth deemed crystal, age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I’d only be 48. That’s the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, illustrator
What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day what his youth took a year to hold.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
A man’s as old as he’s feeling, a woman as old as she looks.
Mortimer Collins (1827-1876) English novelist, poet
When a woman tells you her age it’s all right to look surprised, but don’t scowl.
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) American dramatist, wit
A lady of a “certain age,” which means Certainly aged.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to the ages of other women.
Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566) mistress of Henri II of France, patron
When women pass thirty, they first forget their age; when forty, they forget that they ever remembered it.
Ninon de Lenclos (1620-1705) French society lady, wit
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, i but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author
