Quotes About Age

You have good days and bad days when you get to be my age," Finn said. "And you never can predict which it's going to be.

Tracy assessed Shirley Berkman to be midfifties trying to look midthirties.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

I think that anyone who reaches the age of three or four has more than likely already had all the misery he or she needs.

Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

It looked as if a night of dark intentWas coming, and not only a night, an age.Someone had better be prepared for rage.There would be more than ocean-water brokenBefore God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

One mellows almost without realizing it's a compensation of age, because anger is exhausting.

She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the life she was living, was in fact, her life . The clay of her being, so long infinitely malleable, had been formed, hardened into what now seemed a palpable, unchanging object. A shell she inhabited. It shocked her then. It shocked her now, like a slap in the face.

Children remember staying up late. Grownups think about getting up early

She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the life she was living was, in fact, her life. The clay of her being, so long infinitely malleable, had been formed, hardened into what now seemed a palpable, unchanging object, a shell she inhabited.

Young people err through ignorance; but older people err through oblivion to dramatic but simple truths, learned and forgotten a hundred times. The ignorance of the young has the inviting vacancy of the outdoors; but the oblivion of the old is a noxious void behind a sneer of wisdom.

The new is forever new, but our powers to appreciate it quickly weaken and age. The new is forever the same, but our language for understanding it changes with the shadows. The truth is forever the same, forever new.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it's ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

Juan Vicente did not marry until the age of 46 when he chose María Concepcion Palacios y Blanco, the beautiful 15-year-old daughter of another prominent family.

Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it.

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

In age and feebleness extreme, Who shall a helpless worm redeem? Jesus, my only hope Thou art, Strength of my failing flesh and heart: O could I catch one smile from Thee, And drop into eternity!

unemployed people described "have been superannuated less by age than by newly invented machines.

A man at my age would make a poor lover," he advised a minister in London who had suggested that approach. "Alas, my scepter governs no more.

While Voltaire lived, Frederick of Prussia told him, "After your death, there will be no one to replace you"; when the philosopher was gone, the king said, "For my part, I am consoled by having lived in the age of Voltaire.

She was fourteen and he was thirty-two, and this was the first and only meeting of these two remarkable monarchs. Both would eventually be accorded the title "the Great." And between them, for decades, they would dominate the history of central and eastern Europe.