Quotes About Age

This has been an age in which we have humanized God and deified man, and we have worshipped at the throne of science

Old age is Satan's last chance to blow us off course.

God wants us to work (whether at home or on the job), but that doesn't mean it's wrong to retire. The Levites (who assisted in Israel's worship) were required to retire at fifty.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

Oh sure, I have regrets, but that's the nice thing about age. Regrets fade. And eventually, you die.

There cannot be a stronger proof of that genuine freedom, which is the boast of this age and country, than the power of discussing and examining, with decency and respect, the limits of the king's prerogative. A topic, that in some former ages was thought too delicate and sacred to be profaned by the pen of a subject.

Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.

The Lake is young as natural lakes go, no more than four thousand years old, and it is simpler to say what did not form it than to say what did.

At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

I was embarrassed ... because sexual harassment is such a miserable charge. And I told my brother one time, when I was going into another press conference, I said, this is humiliating. I have to go in there and talk about my sex life. He said, Barker, at your age, you should be grateful you have a sex life.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

We are only young once. That is all society can stand.

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

But I was so much older thenI'm younger than that now.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

An oldtimer is a person who's had many interesting experiences, some of them true.