Age Quotes

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.

Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.

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

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

If youth knew; if age could.

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

I realized at a very young age that health is precious, and too many people don't realize it until it's slipping away, or worse yet, it's gone.

Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

People don't die of old age, they die of neglect.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

I wanted to have a good relationship. One that's romantic and dramatic, like in the movies. But I finally became a woman at 17 and learned that men aren't really that simple.

The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

Age considers; youth ventures.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Never ask age of a woman.

There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space.

Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

My dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest-working man I ever knew. It's because of him that I learned from my youngest age to respect the dignity of work and the dignity of working people.

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

Retribution is really a stone age concept.