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Quotes About Age

When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.
~ Shane Warne
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
~ Samuel Beckett
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
~ Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.
~ William Shakespeare
By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
~ Ted Williams
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!
~ Malcolm Forbes
Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time.
~ Steve Jordan
By Time and Age full many things are taught.
~ Aeschylus
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
~ Thomas A. Edison
It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.
~ Virginia Madsen
The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful.
~ Kevin Keegan
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
~ Joseph Joubert
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
~ Delia Ephron
In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.
~ Djuna Barnes
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
~ William Butler Yeats
It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
~ John Galsworthy
Miss?" She wasn't a "Miss"; she was well over forty, but the old ones loved being mistaken for young meat.
~ Ann Rule
families who coexist all year tend to become dysfunctional with the pressure of holiday emotions. Perhaps humans expect more out of life during the festive season. Those over the age of ten are usually disappointed. CHAPTER ONE In 1975 the Friday before Thanksgiving was icy and bleak.
~ Ann Rule
at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.
~ Anna Quindlen