Famous Quotes

"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."

Thomas Carlyle on Age

More quotes about Age

• "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

  Henry Ford on Age

• "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

  Mark Twain on Age

• "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

  Kurt Vonnegut on Age

• "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

  Robert Frost on Age

More quotes by Thomas Carlyle

• "Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

• "None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."

• "Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

• "Work alone is noble."

• "Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious."