I prefer what I remember to what is going on today. I don't like what I see today, the irresponsibility, the lack of moral values, permissiveness, lack of respect for the elderly, irresponsibility toward society. It depresses me.
--Ted Knight quotes

I will be father to the young, brother to the elderly.
--King Fahd quotes (Saudi Arabia's King)

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
--Felix Frankfurter quotes (American Jurist, 1882-1965)

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
--Unknown

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
--Unknown

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
--Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
--Unknown

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
--Ron Wild quotes

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
--Unknown

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and other is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.
--Unknown

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
--Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
--Tom Wilson quotes (American actor, writer and comedian)

At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.
--40th birthday quotes.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has been set like plaster, and will never soften again.
--William James quotes (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, 106 BC-43 BC)

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
--T.S. Eliot quotes (American born English Editor, Playwright, Poet and Critic, 1888-1965)

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
--Victor Hugo quotes (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
--Groucho Marx quotes (American Comedian, Actor and Singer, 1890-1977)⁷