Age Quotes

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.

If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.

The agent which cures prevents, and the agent that prevents cures.

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.

Girls Who Rocked the World is full of inspiring stories about young women who demonstrate that people of all ages have the power to create change in the world.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps still.

The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

Sexually? Your late 40s and 50s? The bomb!

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.