Quotes About Age

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?

Now, this is an age of alibis. We all know a little too much about the Glands Regulating Personality, and the Havoc raised by Resistances, and so on. Never since the world began were there such good opportunities to be lazy with distinction.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

The young do not know what they do when they withdraw themselves from the old. Life, light and hope seemed to have gone with these three.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Together, they wanted to return the Middle East to the fourteenth century, into a golden age ruled by Islamic law.

Whereas Mark Fidrych has awakened the boy lying dormant in every man's breast, Whereas he has reminded us all that, in an age of free agents and no-cut contracts, baseball is still a game, he has proven baseballs, like people, respond best to kind words and constructive criticism and not to saliva and Vaseline, he made Big Bird as popular with fifty-year-olds as with the playpen set" - Governor Michael Dukakis

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

the longer the life-span, the more stagnant and ossified a species would become. There was something to be said for experience, but youth brought fresh blood and bold new ideas. A dose of much-needed vitality.

The fact that all the diseases of old age have a progression that is exponentially related to age. In other words your chance of having Alzheimer's, for example, at age seventy-five is twice that at age seventy. And your chance of having it age eighty is twice what it was at age seventy-five.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Age wrinkles the body, quitting wrinkles the soul.

So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

Every age has gifts we need, and every age has needs we gift.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.