Quotes About Age

You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.

Life may begin at 30, but it doesn't get real interesting until about 150.

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years.

It's amazing how grandparents seem so young once you become one.

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.

For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.

To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.

Anno aetatis suae… [In the year of his age].

When you befriend old men you realize how innocent the human race is.

A Poesia é a confissão sincera do pensamento mais íntimo de uma idade

The spirit of our age is one in which the prejudices of the past are put behind us, where our diversity is our strength. It is this which is under attack. Moderates are not moderate through weakness but through strength. Now is the time to show it in defence of our common values.

A child is too old to breast-feed when he can unhook mommy's bra with one hand.

She promises Etienne she will remember her age, not try to be everything to everyone, not fight the war by herself.

But Omeir felt something close to despair, and sensed that, even at his age, his feelings would not be welcome, that he should hide them even from his own grandfather. Why mourn, Grandfather would say, what men can do? There's something wrong with a child who sympathizes more with other beings than he does with men.

How wonderful it is to by my age - our age - and learn you were wrong about such a fundamental thing.

Books are bulky and inconvenient—like rocks, and trees, and rivers, and life. It occurs to me that everything that can be said against the inconvenience of books can be said about the inconvenience of children. They too take up space, are of no immediate practical use, are of interest to only a few people, and present all kinds of problems. They too must be warehoused efficiently, and brought with as little resistance as possible into the Digital Age.

The first was Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, a year younger than Gaius.

Livia died in A.D. 29 at the considerable age of eighty-six.

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, for example, had been about twenty-nine

seconds he was forty, fifty yards

Books grow old faster when they're not being read