Age Quotes

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

(The AMA is) "just another mean trust."

You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity.

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.