Age Quotes

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.

In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it.