Quotes About Age

The caretaker was certainly very ancient, a tight and desiccated thing from which all softness and moisture had long since been extracted.

How old's Bulkus, exactly? Thirty? Forty, tops? Well listen, I've got two-thousand years of accumulated wisdom here, and I get it wrong sometimes. For instance, I thought you had something to you when I met you in the gorge: intelligence, flexibility of mind — hah! How misinformed was I?

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

It is pleasant to observe, how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. Future ages shall talk of this; this shall be famous to all posterity. Whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

She's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

At our age, loneliness can seem so permanent.

It was one of those playful arguments that we would carry with us unresolved into old age.

I love doing kind of more kiddish-oriented movies, but I also love doing adult things. And I think it's fun to do a mix.

I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly.

A man is as old as he feels himself to be.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Cuarenta y dos años contra dieciocho, a la vejez viruelas, crucificadla por puta. Pero qué lindo sería morder esa fruta verde.

This small digression shows that fascism has not only been transnational or transatlantic,5 but also transhistorical. Collective memory establishes a link between a concept and its public use, which usually exceeds its purely historiographical dimension. In this perspective, fascism (much like other concepts in our political lexicon) could be seen as a transhistorical concept able to transcend the age that engendered it.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Non aspetti il giovane a filosofare, né il vecchio di filosofare si stanchi: nessuno è troppo giovane o troppo vecchio per la salute dell'anima.

Que ninguém se demore a buscar a sabedoria quando for jovem, nem se canse na busca dela quando envelhecer. Pois nenhuma idade é muito cedo ou muito tarde para a saúde da alma.

Nessuno è mai troppo giovane o troppo vecchio per la salute dell'anima.

Perhaps it is that I am old, but I find it extremely difficult to identify men with their ideas. I can dislike, even hate an idea, but the man who has it seems to be still a man.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.