Age Quotes

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

I learned at that young age that sometimes a really big chance pays off.

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

I think age is just a stupid number.

Age is not the determining factor in health.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.

But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

That's the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer of both. A synthetic comedy-like material.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.