Idea Book
Age

See also:  Birthday, Middle Age, Old Age, Youth

What's My Age Again?  Blink-182

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise  Robert Louis Stevenson

The older I get, the faster I was  Charles Barkley

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain  Susan B. Anthony

The dominant thought of youth is the bigness of the world, of age its smallness  John Buchan

The main difference between youth and age will always be that youth looks forward to life, and old age to death:  and that while the one has a short past and a long future before it, the case is just the opposite with the other  Arthur Schopenhauer

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminisces of what never happened  Saki

They who would be young when they are old must be old when they are young  John Ray

In youth we learn, in old age we understand  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Age demands respect; youth, love  Mary Wollstonecraft

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age  Thomas Aldrich

As we grow old the beauty steals inward  Ralph Waldo Emerson

In youth our judgements are obscured by our hopes; in age, by our regrets  Paul Eldridge

When we are young, we are courageous, but it is only in old age that prudence is at its height  Bion

Youth is a blunder; manhood, a struggle; old age, a regret  Benjamin Disraeli

Live your life and forget your age  Frank Bering

It's not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts  Adlai Stevenson

Age is a matter of mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.  Satchel Paige

You are young only once but you can stay immature forever  unknown

Everyone is the age of their heart  Guatemalan saying

I do wish I could tell you my age but it is impossible.  It keeps changing all the time.  Greer Garso

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I'm old, there is no respect for age -- I missed it coming and going  J.B. Priestly

Age is like love; it cannot be hid  Thomas Dekker

A woman is as old as she looks to a man that likes to look at her  Finley Peter Dunne

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools  George Chapman

We are always the same age inside  Gertrude Stein

A fool at forty is a fool indeed  Edward Young

No wise man ever wished to be younger  Jonathan Swift

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?  Satchel Paige

When I grow up I want to be a little boy  Joseph Heller