Quotes About Age

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

I don't consider 41 being in prime of life. Even if I conceived a child tomorrow I'd be 52 by the time it was 10. I'm not sure I'd have the energy, and I find that quite scary.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

the face is a road map of life.

She was at that age now where if she made too much fuss over them everyone assumed she was desperately broody and felt sorry for her, whereas if she wasn't interested enough she was considered bitter and jealous and also secretly desperate for a baby but not able to show it. It was a minefield.

Is she really old enough to have crushes on boys? I feel like she's too young for all that.

I think that time might be different for young people.

How would I even know what that felt like? I'm seventeen, for God's sake." "Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet. A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man's life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?