Age Quotes

"A man growing old becomes a child again."

"Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die."

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

"Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love."

"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."

"Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person."

"Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity."

"You should never reveal your true age."

"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative."

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

"The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis."

"I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends."

"From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash."

"A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'"

"I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work."

"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."

"I don't think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing."

"Minds ripen at very different ages."

"Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair."

"You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens."

"It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."

"I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors."

"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood."

"A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy."

"When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life."

"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."

"I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends."

"My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character."

"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."

"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."

"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

"As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot."

"At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin."

"Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature."

"Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age."

"Some age, others mature."

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

"In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air."

"With a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, I've always had a great interest in religion, but I've never practiced one myself. After I received a diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia at the age of 22, I put my faith in medicine."

"I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me."

"Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out of water in a lot of ways. She likes being a superhero. She likes fighting crime. She doesn't sit around brooding in the darkness of her Squirrel Hole trying to figure out new ways to make crime pay."

"I got my first piercing at the age of 13, my first tattoo at the age of 15."

"A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'"

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old."

"Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age."

"I get all fired up about aging in America."

"A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world."