Joseph Addison Quotes

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

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

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

Being seventy is not a sin.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

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.

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

I'm looking forward to becoming older and quieter.