Quotes About Age

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.

My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.

Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.

The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.

By 78 you've done everything you're going to do. If you haven't bungee-jumped by the time you're 78 you're not going to do it.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

Youth is thy gift, - the youth that baffles Time.

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.

Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.