Quotes About Age

Really, if you are my friend, chose a younger bed. I cannot bear to live with you when I am the older.

Really, if you are my friend, choose a younger bed. I can't bear to live with you when I am the older one

And then I laugh, because it's so ridiculous and so gorgeous and it's all I an do to not melt into a fit of giggles. So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this IS home.

I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea– We two will pass through death and age lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.

Never again the music blown as brightly Off of my heart as foam blown off a wave; Never again the melody that lightly Caressed my grief and healed the wounds it gave. Never again–I hear my dark thoughts clashing Sullen and blind as waves that beat a wall– Age that is coming, summer that is going, All I have lost or never found at all.

Are you well?" Ven asked the headmistress. "Old age," she replied. "Nothing that a bit of death won't cure.

In that endless time, we are born in the same age. In that infinite space, to be able to meet and become one with you, that fate is really amazing and the miracle is really beautiful.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

I'm 42 now, what I would consider prime time.