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| I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting | | William Shakespeare | |
| In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. | | Henry Miller | |
| Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. | | Jonathan Swift | |
| It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. | | Vincent van Gogh | |
| It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| It is never too late to be what you might have been. | | George Eliot | |
| It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope | | Jean Paul Richter | |
| It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better | | John Steinbeck | |
| It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true | | Gore Vidal | |
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| Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. | | Dale Carnegie | |
| Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock | | Ronald Reagan | |
| Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you | | Ogden Nash | |
| Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. | | Ogden Nash | |
| My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully. | | Bertrand Russell | |
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| Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. | | Eric Hoffer | |
| Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
