Age Quotes

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.

ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.

At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.

With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids read an age group up anyway.

When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

We are the heirs of the ages

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

You're never too young for something you really want to do, never too young to go after your passion. The age doesn't matter at all. If it's something you want to do, it depends on your will.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

The success or failure of any historical age is the extent to which those living at that time have fulfilled the special role that history has imposed upon them.

Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.

The age of miracles is forever here.

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

For age with stealing steps Hath clawed me with his crutch

The wrinkles in my brow, The furrows in my face, Say, limping age will lodge him now Where youth must give him place.

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, "Dad's an idiot," which lasted a little longer than I'd like.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

I wrote my 1st song at age 11. I haven't stopped since!

If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is.

We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.