Age Quotes

"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."

"There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise."

"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."

"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."

"The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."

"From a young age, I took an interest in the music and my mom noticed it."

"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."

"Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves."

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

"The wisdom of age: don't stop walking."

"To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity."

"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."

"It sounds, especially in this day and age, sort of snobbish, but we left school at 16, nobody went on to university unless you were a real brainbox. Instead, we went to Paris and Florence and learned about life and culture and how to behave with people, how to talk to people."

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

"To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you."

"If youth knew; if age could."

"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him."

"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."

"Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years."

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."

"The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible."

"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."

"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."

"Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope."

"It doesn't surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body."

"Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old."

"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."

"Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect."

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

"When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ."

"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."

"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age."

"Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple."

"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."

"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."

"Youth has no age."

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

"Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past."

"Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty."

"Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'"

"Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You."

"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."