Age Quotes

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

Age is just reality we create for ourselves.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

Just because a person is young doesn’t mean that being loyal to someone isn’t important. And it still hurts if someone isn’t loyal to you.

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

I was a lot braver when I was eight.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.

We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.