Quotes About Age

Heroes, however, have a habit of ending up dead or bankrupt, and, as you know better than anyone, I have much to lose. At my age and in my profession, prudence is more than just a virtue, it's an instinct.

vida. A esta edad hay más historias por escribir que tiempo para ocuparse de ellas. Elegir una implica dejar morir otras. Por eso es necesario escoger con cuidado. Equivocarse lo justo.

A esta edad hay más historias por escribir que tiempo para ocuparse de ellas.

Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

It's raining outside. How did you get here? And how did you get to be twenty-eight?

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing.…

Pa?ios meil?s, kaip ir g?l?s, amžius neilgas. Vyro meil? miršta nat?ralia mirtimi santuokoje, o moters meil? dažnai tveriai iki pat galo, virtusi grynai motinišku švelnumu nuvainikuotam savo svajoni? didvyriui.

Many ask me whether pranayama, controlling the breath, postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The Soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.

But maturity of vision does not come even with age, and so how could it appear in youth? Only some fortunate ones have purity of conduct keeping pace with the whitening of hair.

A man shall see faces, that if you examine them part by part, you shall find never a good; and yet altogether do well. If it be true that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel, though persons in years seem many times more amiable; pulchrorum autumnus pulcher; for no youth can be comely but by pardon, and considering the youth, as to make up the comeliness.

The errors of young men, are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men, amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

For arts of pleasure sensual, the chief deficience in them is of laws to repress them. For as it hath been well observed, that the arts which flourish in times while virtue is in growth, are military; and while virtue is in state, are liberal; and while virtue is in declination, are voluptuary: so I doubt that this age of the world is somewhat upon the descent of the wheel.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down.

Executives are convinced that a rapper has a certain lifespan as far as being a hot emcee. When you start to approach your 30s, pretty much stereotypically it's over.

I think no matter whether you're old or young or dying or living, to get to a place where you feel fulfilled and content is really rare and really cool.

Age is rarely a limitation to being a mentor.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles I can get to 80 percent of the places I want to go.