Age Quotes

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

We don't have to wait until we are old to gather the riches... We can gather them every day of our lives.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday!

Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial 'youthquake' age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 than in 1967 ? Therefore it was glam rock that ended the war in Vietnam.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.