Quotes About Age

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

For every wizened female tortoise there's a male tortoise who thinks she's irresistible.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outline of an old and worried face.

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

Chronological age is fixed. Biological age can be modified with training.

The problem is that when you get it, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Harriet! I've never met anyone called Harriet in real life. I had a brief fantasy about her being Harriet Vane, because she'd be about the right age for that, except that Harriet Vane would be addressed as Lady Peter, and anyway she's fictional. I can tell the difference, really I can.

1 tatty old man in jeans—what was he thinking? Jeans are for young people.

Vecchio è, quel che di già è fuorviato. Il vecchio ha avuto valore quando era nuovo...

When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.

In every age, there comes a time when leadership suddenly comes forth to meet the needs of the hour. And so there is no man who does not find his time, and there is no hour that does not have its leader.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

One rule: Never let your husband see you exercising. No woman rolling around on the floor looks really adorable after she's passed her third birthday.

We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the "fresh life within" that age reveals to us, if we only give it a chance.

Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.

The only good thing about age is that sooner or later all of the SOBs who dumped you are going to die.

At twenty-nine you can't waste your time reading.

A mis cuarenta y diez, cuarenta y nueve dicen que aparento.

he remained enthralled by the sublimely ordered Ptolemaic cosmos in which 'we do not see, like Meredith's Lucifer, the army of unalterable law but rather the revelry of insatiable love.' He conceded that it was not 'true'; but in his last, perhaps his most provocative, pages, claimed that all 'models' of the universe reflect as much the psychology of an age as the current state of knowledge.

And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins.