Quotes About Age

There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.

They also fought to raise the age at which a girl could be deemed to consent to sex. Through much of the nineteenth century, most U.S. states set the age of consent for girls at ten, eleven, or twelve. In Delaware, it was seven!41 By the end of the nineteenth century reformers in the United States and Europe had established sixteen to eighteen as the legal age of consent.

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.

The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.

The beauty of being a woman, as the French say, "of a certain age", is that I can be invisible. Young people, both men and women, look right through me, unless I make the effort to be noticed.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

now i am oldolder enough to have known the worldand i am sad

These three sere beings at the shadowy corner waited on. Nannie was sixtynine, Keda was twenty-two, Titus was twelve days old.

they weren't kids anymore—they were pushing thirty; even more important, Lunsford had become a proud papa in 1990. "I had to say, 'What are my primary commitments?' " he says. "Being in a seriously touring rock & roll band is difficult to do as a parent.

Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age! Honey, he's four thousand years old, Veronica said.

Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.

One of the sturdiest precepts of the study of human delusion is that every golden age is either past or in the offing.

an ancient woman, swarthy and whiskered and crooked like a finger.