Age Quotes

Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.

I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.

To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone's going to love you.

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

A woman who will tell her age, will tell anything.

Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.

Living too long exacts a painful price.

In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.

With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.