Age Quotes

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

This is the age of the new tolerance and it is producing a bumper crop of anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Having success at an early age gave me more of a sense of what's important in life rather than always driving to make it.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

They tell you that at his age, all they do is eat, sleep, and poop. And what I've learned is they can actually do all three at the same time. Who knew?

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age.

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and its something that carries with me to this day.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That's the beauty of the Internet Age.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

The last birthday that's any good is 23.

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.