Quotes About Age

I cannot understand the almost exclusive emphasis on racial integration, when in fact we are getting more and more segregated into tight little cliques on age grounds.

I often wonder whether a frumpy old woman can ever be quite fair in her estimate of a young and lovely one.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Some day the marriageable age for women will be advanced from twenty to thirty, and the old maid line will be changed from thirty to forty. When that time comes there will be surprisingly few divorces. The husband of whom we dream at twenty is not at all the type of man who attracts us at thirty.

What can death do to you at ninety that life hasn't done to you already!

Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.

If I were to give you, in one sentence, a key to what may seem the mysteries of our civilization as compared with that of your age, I should say that it is the fact that the solidarity of the race and the brotherhood of man, which to you were but fine phrases, are, to our thinking and feeling, ties as real and as vital as physical fraternity.

Only when the sap is dried up, only when age comes on, does the sun shine in vain for man and for the tree.

I need a kid like I need a bad heart. A pretty kid is a ticket to trouble... and I'm too old to ask for that. Shit, I haven't even booked Tommy the Face in two years. I'm turning into a jack-off idiot.

So that eternal love, in love's fresh case, Weighs not the dust and injury of age;

It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

When the moon is in the seventh houseAnd Jupiter aligns with Mars,Then peace will guide the planets,And love will steer the stars;This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius,The age of Aquarius.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the time.

The Ancient of days.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king.

Grandmothers are just antique little girls.

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience.

And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday.