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Quotes About Age

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
~ Robert Browning
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
~ Samuel Johnson
Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.
~ Sandra Bullock
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.
~ Seymour Hicks
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
~ T. S. Eliot
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
~ W. H. Auden
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
~ William Hazlitt
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.
~ Ellen Page
Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
~ George Crabbe
After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.
~ George Lucas
Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.
~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.
~ Jennifer Egan
I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.
~ David Suchet
It tickles me, my daughter said that to me. She said, "Mommie, why is it that every time they say your name they put your age right behind it?"
~ Diana Ross
Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.
~ Friedrich Schiller
When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
~ Garrison Keillor
Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.
~ Hesiod
Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.
~ Murray Walker
By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
One time I saw an old man in a hurry and I thought, 'That makes sense.'
~ Demetri Martin