Quotes About Age

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

And she is older, in my defense, the way Alison goes on you'd think I'd been fucking an undergraduate. In any case, once Astrid and I had established relations, I understood that they might cross paths, so we were exceptionally discreet about our . . . connection.

You a Catholic, Harry?" O'Neill asked. "I was. Can't see it any more." "You know something?" O'Neill offered after a pause. "Religion is for punks and old folks. When you're a punk you need it because you don't know any better and it straightens you up. And when you're old you need it for comfort before you check out. But in between it's no good.

sunken to that of an old woman in the harsh disguise

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

Ignacio Abel feels a weariness he doesn't remember having experienced before, all the more evident in the presence of someone younger (but he didn't feel the age difference when he was with Judith; how strange to have lived so long in a state of total unawareness, to have thought himself immune to the years, to weakness, to death)

Totta on niin kuin sanotaan, että sitä kauan kaipaa mitä nuorena on kokenut.

A woman hates to be called an Aunty by anyone but a man may even take pride to be called an Uncle by others.

Babies are beautiful and adults are usually horrible.

Everyone is born as sage , only with growing age almost all start becoming fools on the world stage.

Marriage is an age when a man starts to feel the need of always bandage while a woman begins to feel oneself out of all bondage.

Most grow old with ages, but some attain age with wisdom

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Newborns (0–3 months): 14–17 hours Infants (4–11 months): 12–15 hours Toddlers (1–2 years): 11–14 hours Preschoolers (3–5): 10–13 hours School-age children (6–13): 9–11 hours Teenagers (14–17): 8–10 hours Young adults (18–25): 7–9 hours Adults (26–64): 7–9 hours Older adults (65+): 7–8 hours

You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

Traindu-si varsta singur si salbatic.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.

Man, though he be gray-headed when he comes back, soon gets a young wife. But a woman?s time is short within which she can expect to obtain a husband. If she allows it to slip away, no one cares to marry her. She sits at home, speculating on the probability of her marriage.

Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better And you are young enough not to care.

We're gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we're gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

Crystallized intelligence, relying as it does on a stock of knowledge, tends to increase with age through one's forties, fifties, and sixties—and does not diminish until quite late in life, if at all.

Cicero believed three things about older age. First, that it should be dedicated to service, not goofing off. Second, our greatest gift later in life is wisdom, in which learning and thought create a worldview that can enrich others. Third, our natural ability at this point is counsel: mentoring, advising, and teaching others, in a way that does not amass worldly rewards of money, power, or prestige.