Age Quotes

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.

A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?

It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want. Especially in this age of blatant, shameless gerrymandering.

Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

I was interested in politics since the age of 14.

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all.

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

The age of the book is almost gone.

There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

I'm playing golf. I ride my mountain bike. A lot. I think it's very important for me and other people my age to continue to exercise.

When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

Most people our age have the whole "dating game" [mentality] of trying to sell yourself or be strategic.

We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run.

Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard at that early age.