Quotes: Age.

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Age
Age 341 “At fifty you begin to be tired of the world, and at sixty the world is tired of you.” Count Oxenstierna. Mid 17th century. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Age 341 “Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.” Trotsky. 1935. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Age 341 “Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.” Sam. Johnson. 1750-2. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Age 343 “The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” Oscar Wilde. 1891. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Age 345 “He is the happiest man who can trace unbroken the connection between the end of his life and the beginning.” Goethe. Early 19th century. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Age 345 A man must grow old in order to understand how short life is. “A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.” Schopenhauer. 1851. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Age 50 “Old men are twice children.” Latin. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Age 129 “As we grow old, we become more foolish and more wise.” La Rochefoucauld. French. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Age 271 “Few people know how to be old.” La Rochefoucauld. French. Dictionary of Foreign Terms

Age 13 He would never live life over again. "He looks over his former life as a danger well past, and would not hazard himself to begin again." John Earle, “A Good Old Man.” 1628. Gross, ed. Essays.

Age 13 The good old man shares his experience with youth, without criticizing them. " He [the good old man] practices his experience on youth without the harshness of reproof, and in his counsel is good company." John Earle, “A Good Old Man.” 1628. Gross, ed. Essays.

Age 13 A good old man remembers how often he has told his stories. "He [the good old man] has some old stories...but remembers...how oft he has told them." John Earle, “A Good Old Man.” 1628. Gross, ed. Essays.

Age 429 The tragedy of old age is that youth does not need your experience and advice. Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth…divined that when Aunt Bessie came in with a jar of wild-grape jelly she was waiting in hope of being asked for the recipe. Sinclair Lewis, Main Street.

Age 7 In old age, he was not interested in the adventures of a new day. "He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new day." Lewis, Babbitt.

Age 235 To the reverend, he was wicked; to the young Miss Ida, he was a bore. "He reflected that from the standpoint of the Rev. Dr. John Jennison Drew he was a wicked man, and from the standpoint of Miss Ida Putiak, an old bore who had to be endured as the penalty attached to eating a large dinner. "Lewis, Babbitt.

Age 223 …retired more or less from everything. DeLillo, Underworld.