Top 100 With Age Quotes
#1. Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#2. For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age.
Bertolt Brecht
#3. It is rare, though becoming more common with age that I am put into situations where I only half-heartedly balance on acting and being myself...a real nice dinner, relatives, etc.
Wesley Eisold
#4. He often heard that wisdom comes with age, and he waited, trusting that this wisdom would bring him what he most wanted; that ability to guide his memories and not fall into the traps that they often set for him.
Luis Sepulveda
#5. Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Bo Bennett
#6. One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won't improve with age.
Warren Buffett
#7. In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
Bonnie Raitt
#8. The problem with memories is they get more valuable with time,
and the places we keep them get weaker with age.
Michael Xavier
#9. Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
Mark Twain
#10. Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#11. Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.
Gene Perret
#12. We ... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.
Nelson Shanks
#13. With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.
Terri Clark
#14. -honor won in youth grows with age.
Nam Le
#15. Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.
Ann Landers
#16. Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
Karen DeCrow
#17. Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
Julianna Baggott
#18. Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John Paul II
#19. Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust.
Walter Raleigh
#20. Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.
William Shakespeare
#21. Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does
- except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But
only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren
#22. Freedom doesn't come with age. It doesn't magically appear when you're a legal adult. It comes when you stand up for what you believe in.
Krista Ritchie
#23. Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.
Ram Dass
#24. Perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.
Candace Wheeler
#25. That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suffering right now because it's out of your hands what happens to you with age.
Bo Derek
#26. But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.
Bill Nye
#27. Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.
Darrelle Revis
#28. With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
Vin Diesel
#29. There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.
David Galenson
#30. Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!
Dawn Wells
#31. It is strange how a memory will grow into a wax figure, how the cherub grows suspiciously prettier as its frame darkens with age-strange, strange are the mishaps of memory.
Vladimir Nabokov
#32. Jesus has the dew of His youth upon Him. Others grow languid with age, but He is for ever a Priest as was Melchisedek; others come and go, but He abides as God upon His throne, world without end.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#33. It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It's a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego's shell. True life can't ever start, until we offer up our heart .
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
#34. Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.
George D. Prentice
#36. When we are young, we take a certain pleasure in our infirmities. They seem so new, so rich! With age, they no longer surprise us, we know them too well. Now, without anything unexpected in them, they do not deserve to be endured.
Emil Cioran
#37. Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time.
Steve Jordan
#38. This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.
Erin Morgenstern
#39. I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).
Kelly Clark
#40. There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
Jon Bon Jovi
#41. Wisdom is not guaranteed with age but is realized through one's sensitivity to humanity and the universe
I. Alan Appt
#42. This book is dedicated to all the women - and men - who know that the human desire for romance, love, and sexual passion has nothing to do with age.
Pamela Clare
#43. Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
Alexander Pope
#44. With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
Cherie Lunghi
#45. I'm like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come.
Richelle Mead
#46. He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.
Ambrose Bierce
#47. All men press, one way or another," she said with mock severity.
"They're still keeping to their book then?"
Denna's expression grew rueful and she sighed. "I used to hope they'd disregard the book with age. Instead I've found they've merely turned a page.
Patrick Rothfuss
#48. I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.
Jean-Louis Gassee
#49. With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare ... because there are so few such diadems left.
Joe L. Wheeler
#50. I've definitely got a lot more cautious about my lyrics - I feel I want to be a positive force in the world, and I want to uplift people. That's something that comes with age.
Brandon Flowers
#51. The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.
Claudia Gray
#52. I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
Nina Totenberg
#53. It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.
Ronnie Corbett
#54. The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.
Russell Smith
#55. It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age. To get old is a mental disease. Everything is in the head.
Nina Hagen
#56. Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
Brad Pitt
#57. Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves
Iain M. Banks
#59. In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.
Albert Einstein
#60. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Maya Angelou
#61. With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
Oprah Winfrey
#62. Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
Aaron Sorkin
#63. People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.
Rick Kaplan
#64. But some mistakes can never be righted and the guilt eats away at the soul. Of all the emotions we have, I have learnt that guilt is the most corrosive. Anger passes quickly, and hatred mellows with age and learning, but guilt endures.
Danny Scheinmann
#65. Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
Jonathan Swift
#67. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
#68. How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles, - are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master.
Plato
#69. One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
Carl Hiaasen
#70. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison
#71. The best ideas are like great wines. They improve with age. But they can also go through a dumb period when they need time to settle and sink in.
Marshall Goldsmith
#72. Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
#73. I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.
Jane Goldman
#74. Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
Rollo May
#75. I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.
Heinrich Boll
#76. Nothing with this woman was meant to be rushed. She was like a fine wine that only improved with age and time. Time she hadn't been given growing up, but I'd waited close to a year.
I could wait some more.
Rachel Blaufeld
#77. My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
Vinnie Jones
#78. I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Bonnie Raitt
#79. I have always loved things that are timeless and get better with age.
Ralph Lauren
#80. Accepting others' life choices is something most people only learn with age.
Neil Strauss
#81. My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
Ted Dekker
#82. Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#83. With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older.
Amanda L. Moritz
#84. There is new research showing that our creative potential increases with age. Our creativity is a product of our inner and outer experience, and as we get older, we have all kinds of experience to draw on. Also, research tells us that creativity brings energy, vitality and good health.
Sandra A. Cusack
#85. Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'
Gloria Steinem
#86. Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.
John C. Maxwell
#87. You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.
Cate Blanchett
#88. I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.
Hammurabi
#89. Some voices get hard and tight with age, some rough like broken glass.
Shannon Hale
#91. I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully.
Craig Finn
#92. Unlike wine, bad ideas don't improve with age.
Marty Rubin
#93. We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.
Peter Gavin Hall
#94. He shifts and my eyes shatter into thousands of pieces that ricochet around the room, capturing a million snapshots, a million moments in time. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.
Tahereh Mafi
#95. Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave another pondering for days. I prefer to cast my spells of words in ways that make others think. It is a fault, I fear, that has come with age.
Cheryl Matthynssens
#96. There was a sort of beauty that only comes with age. A whole life engraved into facial wrinkles.
Henning Mankell
#97. Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.
Andrew Weil
#98. Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.
Lawrence Weiner
#99. The heart never grows better with age; I fear rather worse, always harder.
Lord Chesterfield
#100. One's capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.
Anthony Powell
