Quotes About Age

The great sun, moving in the heavenly houses, has left the House of the Fishes for the House of the Water-bearer. In the coming age shall humanity be holy, and in the perfection of the human shall we find the humane. Take up the manhood into Godhead, and bring down the Godhead into manhood, and this shall be the day of God with us; for God is made manifest in Nature, and Nature is the self-expression of God.

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

I remember young Austrian boys going to school, flocks of quail they were, sitting out their recess in different spots in the sun, rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed, with damp rosy mouths, smelling of the herd childhood, facts of history glimmering in their minds like sunlight, soon to be lost, soon to be forgotten, degraded into proof. Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

The older a man gets...the longer it takes for him to get a grin organized.

Beyond that he was a ghost of Uganda; in this nation of his birth he was under a death sentence for the simple crime of having lived. And he was the ghost of his father's dream of security and continuity, there was no security, and this age was the enemy of continuity. Every man stands on the freight-car roof. We fall and fall, our feet planted on the solid surface, and the only question is how long before we hit.

He was about forty, with the smooth weathered look of a man who keeps himself in shape with handball and self-esteem.

Well, god damn it," Cayzer said. "Sometimes I don't know if I was stupid all my life or if I'm just getting stupid with old age. Come on along, you can ask them yourself.

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number.

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.

I think that everyone has the right to fall in love at any age. But in life you have to learn how to control your emotions. You must know self-discipline.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

Youthfulness is not determined by age. It is determined by one's life force. One who possesses hope is forever young. One who continually advances is forever beautiful.