Age

When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked

Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same

They that have lived a single day have lived an age

We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am

In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth

It is not well to make great changes in old age

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending