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Quotes About Age

It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
~ Emma Thompson
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.
~ Horace
Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience.
~ John Keats
I still look good. I'm trippin', but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I'm 63, and still kicking. I've been putting records out every year.
~ Roy Ayers
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
~ Seneca the Younger
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
~ Douglas Horton
A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
~ Abigail Breslin
Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.
~ Aeschylus
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
~ Agatha Christie
This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.
~ Amber Tamblyn
I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.
~ Bel Kaufman
An old young man, will be a young old man.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles.
~ Charles Darwin
I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.
~ Cliff Martinez
The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.
~ Cyril Connolly
For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.
~ Edgar Guest
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
~ Lord Byron
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
~ Mark Twain
When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?
~ Melanie Griffith
How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out. "You're beautiful," I murmured.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.
~ Ovid
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson