<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Age - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age, like distance lends a double charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age, like distance lends a double charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66200]]></link><description><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65195]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64442]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The golden age is before us, not behind us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The golden age is before us, not behind us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63487]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The years teach much which the days never knew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62800]]></link><description><![CDATA[The years teach much which the days never knew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1879]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1880]]></link><description><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1881]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1885]]></link><description><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All diseases run into one, old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1886]]></link><description><![CDATA[All diseases run into one, old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1890]]></link><description><![CDATA[At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1892]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1869]]></link><description><![CDATA[When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1872]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself. -Adolph Zukor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1873]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself. -Adolph Zukor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to become young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to become young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1877]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1878]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1878</guid></item></channel></rss>