Aging Men Quotes

The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.

For guys, growing older is fine. Gray hair and wrinkles aren't considered a bad thing.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

This is what old guys do. They get dark and pessimistic.

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

For men, after a certain age, it gets hard to make new friends.

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

I woke up one morning and realised that one of the problems with being a middle-aged man - of being a man in general - is the tyranny of fashion.

Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.

I think so many men have this really sharp feeling of being a disappointment in their mid-forties. There's probably something chemical about it - the drop of testosterone, the fact that you don't feel the same way physically. It's a real thing. You do tend to feel like a disappointment.

Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza.