Talk:Age

History of Old age, merged here: ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:15, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

   * (cur) (last)  09:47, 25 August 2005 MosheZadka (merge -> Age)
   * (cur) (last) 12:18, 16 August 2005 MosheZadka (intro, wp, stub, fmt)
   * (cur) (last) 11:07, 9 May 2005 Aphaia m
   * (cur) (last) 19:28, 10 October 2004 DW m

Possibly unnotable quotes

I've moved the following from the main page, because the quotees did not have a wikipedia or a wikiquote page. If there is evidence of notability, add it here, on a wp page or a wq page, and restore quote. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:36, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

• "If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39?"
  • Jim Fiebig

• "Old is when you're dead."
  • Sven Mattson

All quotees currently have a linked page on wikiquote. If you add quotes by people who do not have either an wq or a wikipedia page, please make sure to wikilink to the non-existing wq page (a redlink), and add some note on the quotee here, so notability will be evident. Alternatively, create the wq page. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:41, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

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• Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.
  • Pietro Aretino.

• Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things, —- old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
  • Francis Bacon.

• I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
  • Rita Mae Brown.

• A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
  • Groucho Marx

• Growing old is no more than a bad habbit which a busy man has no time to form.
  • André Maurois, quoted in The Aging American.

• An old man loved is winter with flowers.
  • German proverb.

• I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
  • Tom Stoppard.

• Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
  • Charles Dickens.

• The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
  • Hume Cronyn.

• There are only three ages for women in Hollywood — Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
  • Goldie Hawn.

• Times go by: reputation increases, ability declines.
  • Dag Hammarskjold.

• To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
  • Bernard Baruch.

• We are always the same age inside.
  • Gertrude Stein.

• When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
  • R. C. Sherriff.

• When you become senile, you won't know it.
  • Bill Cosby

• When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
  • Cyril Connolly

• When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
  • Mark Twain.

• You will become a hypocrite, you'll become a liar. You'll try and paper up your own cracks... and that's what being an adult is all about. Then you have babies and... that's it. Sorry!
  • Thom Yorke.

• Your life only tips into old age if regrets begin to outnumber dreams.
  • Peter Baskerville

• My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a reason to stay alive.
  • Johannes Heesters (Dutch-German actor, singer, entertainer and media-personality, worlds oldest living performer).

Anonymous

• Age before beauty.

• Age brings wisdom, but pain brings understanding.

• Age is a bad traveling companion.
  • English proverb.

• To be mature is to accept imperfections
  • Fortune cookie

• Age is nothing but a number
  • Dove Chocolate Promise Message

• There are no charms or medicine against old age.
  • Anonymous, quoted in The Journal of Negro History, Edited by Carter G. Woodson, Volume 1 Number 1 (1916).

merging Growing old

I agree and support the merge of both the pages and would like to assist, given a consensus is reached. Lightbluerain (talk) 18:53, 6 December 2021 (UTC)