Moliere Quotes

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

I've never been scared of aging.

Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?