Quotes About Age

thirty is a watershed year for men. If they're going to develop intelligence, they do it around then, and if they don't, it's too late. So you mustn't hanker after men in their twenties.

Birthday Soup is good to eat, but not as good as Birthday Cake.

Many people had a fatalistic outlook, a conviction that life's vicissitudes were predetermined by fate, which must have been useful in such a violent age, when the world was very uncertain.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

Mi barrio es en sí mismo un país para viejos. Y para gente madura. Y para jóvenes que no necesitan estar rodeados de otros jóvenes sino que disfrutan de este ambiente residencial en el que nada es cool pero (casi) todo es auténtico.

Age is just a number. That is to say, your age should not discourage you from pursuing and realizing a new dream, vision or aspiration. Thus, disregard your age. For, it does not matter. -Emeasoba George

Are you being or have you been discouraged by your age? If Yes, then it's high time you've got to refuse to be discouraged by it. For, your age shouldn't discourage you from pursuing/going after/achieving a new dream/vision/aspiration.

No one is ever too old to dream big or to realize any dream. Yes! your age shouldn't discourage you from dreaming big. So, dare to dream big, regardless of your age. ~Emeasoba George

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.

When you live past the age of rebellion, and you still rebel, you seem to yourself a kind of senile Lucifer.

The Empire was falling, the Barbarians were on the move.... What was to be done, except to escape the age? Happy moment, when there is still somewhere to go, when the empty places were accessible and welcoming! We have been dispossessed of everything, even the desert.

Existence might well have had some attraction before the advent of noise — let us say, before the neolithic age. When will he come, the man who can rid us of all men?

I find it hard to understand your ambition to make a name for yourself in an age when the epigone is de rigueur.

How old are you ?" asks Plastic again. "That doesn't matter," says StingRay. "What matters is how much stuff I know. People who know a lot of stuff don't need birthdays.

She was seventy-three, a widow, came in every night looking like the Queen, drank her body weight in gin and left looking like an unmade bed.

In the great histories there are two topics of interest—the man as a type of the age in which he lives,—the events and manners of the age he is describing; very often almost all the interest is the contrast of the two.

Respect is traditional; it is given not to what is proved to be good, but to what is known to be old.

In the East, in a word, we are attempting to put new wine into old bottles-to pour what we can of a civilization whose spirit is progress into the form of a civilization whose spirit is fixity, and whether we shall succeed or not is perhaps the most interesting question in an age abounding almost beyond example in questions of political interest.

The manner of writing history is as characteristic of the narrator as the actions are of the persons who are related to have performed them; often much more so. It may be generally defined as a view of one age taken by another; a picture of a series of men and women painted by one of another series.

But Springlike preludes suggest a happy world where the young are philosophers and the old gracefully get out of their way.

In his prime the Hollywood screenwriter was one of the tragic figures of our age, evoking the special anguish that arises from feeling sorry for oneself while making large amounts of money.

In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.

Old men alone have time to love; young men are rowing ... the galleys of ambition.

Up to the age of thirty the face of a woman is a book written in a foreign tongue, which one may still translate in spite of all the feminisms of the idiom; but on passing her fortieth year a woman becomes an insoluble riddle; and if any one can see through an old woman, it is another old woman.