Quotes About Age

The way of thinking has to be aligned with age and if not, it has to be advanced.

From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

Most women are not so young as they are painted.

Taking a very gloomy view of the future of the human race, let us suppose that it can only expect to survive for two thousand million years longer, a period about equal to the past age of the earth. Then, regarded as a being destined to live for three-score years and ten, humanity, although it has been born in a house seventy years old, is itself only three days old.

An old and gray-headed error.

But age, with his stealing steps,Hath claw'd me in his clutch.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.

The past is fragile, as fragile as bones grown brittle with age, as fragile as ghosts seen in windows or the dreams that fall apart upon waking and leave nothing behind them but a feeling of unease or distress or, more rarely, a kind of eerie satisfaction.

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

Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

I am old, but the Gods still love me.

Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.

A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.

You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame

For you and I are past our dancing days.

If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.

Love is like the measles; the older you are when it hits you, the harder it takes. Cheer up, you won't die of it.