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Quotes About Age

Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.
~ Scott Lynch
Advice," chuckled Doña Vorchenza. "The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.
~ Scott Lynch
Q: What is the best thing about being a hundred? A: No peer pressure.
~ Scott McNeely
PATIENT: Doctor, is it common for sixty-year-olds to have problems with short-term memory storage? DOCTOR: The problem is not storing memory. The problem is retrieval.
~ Scott McNeely
Grandpa was sitting on a park bench when a policeman walked by and asked, "Why are you crying?" Grandpa said, "I'm in love with a twenty-year-old woman. She's smart, sexy, and rich!" "There now," said the policeman, "there's no need to cry about it." "Sure there is! I forget where we live.
~ Scott McNeely
My brother Ramo was only a little boy half my age, which was twelve. He was small for one who had lived so many suns and moons, but quick as a cricket.
~ Scott O'Dell
A millennium's worth of lies leads to a single truth—the future belongs to the young, if the old would kindly die and get the hell out of the way.
~ Scott Sigler
I will never be old. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
~ Scott Sigler
She was thirty-eight years old and cut like marble. Defined, but not obscenely muscular. Sexy, but not grotesque.
~ Scott Thomas
Now, in fresh surrender, we give you our planning for the next season of our lives. Show us the way we should go through our transitions—transitions of age and stage, career and calling, health and finances, relationships and ministries. Write stories of redemption beyond our wildest dreams and hopes. It's all about you, Jesus—not us, you.
~ Scotty Smith
a battle-scarred veteran, bowed with age, would begin to remember the martial deeds of his youth and prime and be overcome as the past welled up in his wintry heart.
~ Seamus Heaney
Chorus: Steadfast Antigone, Never before did Death Open his stone door To one so radiant. You would not live a lie. Vindicated, lauded, Age and disease outwitted, YOu go with head held high.
~ Seamus Heaney
I came into the world at the right time.
~ Helge Ingstad
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
~ Josh Billings
I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.
~ Kim Cattrall
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
~ Moliere
I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time.
~ Papa John Creach
I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.
~ Raphael Saadiq
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
~ John Bercow
I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.
~ Anne Rice, Pandora
There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.
~ Dave Matthews
Nicklaus at the 86 Masters. At his age, with his game at the time.
~ Adam Jacobs
So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.
~ Alonzo Mourning
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.
~ Ambrose Bierce