Age Quotes

"Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

"The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change."

"I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies."

"I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields."

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."

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

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

"Age does not matter if the matter does not age."

"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."

"The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income."

"Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence."

"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."

"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."

"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

"At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus."

"We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art."

"Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root."

"Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing."

"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."

"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea."

"In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long."

"Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation."

"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning."

"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired."

"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

"I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them."

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

"Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age."

"We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date."

"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."

"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

"All diseases run into one, old age."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

"A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married."

"The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over."

"I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them."

"At my age, you can go either fat or gaunt. I've gone gaunt."

"A man growing old becomes a child again."