Mark Twain Quotes

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

Old age is second childhood.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

Old age is but a second childhood.

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.