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Quotes About Age

When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose.
~ Printers' Ink
Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.
~ Proverb
Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age
~ Proverb
A young woman with an old man is really someone else's woman.
~ Proverb
No woman marries an old man for God's sake.
~ Proverb
When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so.
~ Proverb
When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.
~ Quincy Jones
La edad de una persona puede determinarse por el grado de dolor que experimenta cuando entra en contacto con una idea nueva
~ Quincy Jones
I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?
~ R. L. LaFevers
He did not look so old, since age generally follows on tailoring. He did not look so terribly well bred, since class follows the same rules.
~ R.A. MacAvoy
I have reached the age where life has become a series of accepted defeats—age and defeat, blood brothers faithful to the end.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Age considers; youth ventures.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
nationalism is a cruel epidemic of evil that is sweeping over the human world of the present age
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The infinite is with us in the beauty of our childhood, in the strength of our youth, in the wisdom of our age; in play, in earning, and in spending.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
~ Rachael Leigh Cook
It is too late! oh, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers When each had numbered more than fourscore years LONGFELLOW
~ Rachel Ferguson
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.
~ Chen Shui-bian
Once you hit 40, being in a band - a committee voting constantly on what you're going to be doing next month - it's more of a challenge. And when you have a kid as well.
~ Dean Wareham
All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.
~ Goodluck Jonathan
If we reduce the minimum voting age to 16, as we should, then people could be auto-registered when they are issued with a national insurance card.
~ Jess Phillips
I try to keep myself young as possible. I vow to never let my hair go grey.
~ Engelbert Humperdinck
Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.
~ Christopher Buckley
I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.
~ Clint Eastwood