Age Quotes

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

I learned at that young age that sometimes a really big chance pays off.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

I'm lucky, because I started action movies at the age of 25. Now I'm 47, and I'm still kicking like a mule, and I'm as flexible as before.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

Age cannot limit him, nor use exhaust his infinite mendacity.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

Anxiety is the normality of our age.

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

I've never liked the idea you have to be a certain age to be a pop star. I like the idea that anybody can enter, anybody can compete.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

It got up to 94 degrees today – that's pretty good at my age.

The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.