Quotes About Age

Why let the young folk have all the dumb ideas?

Thirty-four years old. That seemed ancient in some regards

Perspective. When you're young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we're all just the same kids wearing older bodies.

Perspective. When you are young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we are all just the same kids wearing older bodies.

New tastes are like new ideas ... the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.

É uma ilusão a sabedoria dos velhos. A sabedoria não cresce com a idade. O que cresce é o espírito de cautela. —Talvez a sabedoria seja isso.

There was a sort of beauty that only comes with age. A whole life engraved into facial wrinkles.

It was only in the Western world that old people were viewed with indulgence or contemptuous sympathy. In other cultures, age was respected as the period of enlightened wisdom.

Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet.

La vieillesse est le côté sombre de la vie et rien d'autre. Elle n'est qu'une illusion, un miroir aux alouettes.

Extreme age is a spiritual pitched battle fought in the dark. A battle that inevitably ends in defeat. The darkness and degradation of old age is something for which religions have never been able to offer us consolation or satisfactory explanation.

My grandmother is over eighty and she still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

have seen how the fear of becoming subject to God's revenge and punishment has paralyzed the mental and emotional lives of many people, independently of their age, religion, or life-style. This paralyzing fear of God is one of the great human tragedies.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

It is, I think, the opinion of Aristotle; or if not, it is the opinion of some wise man, whose authority will be as weighty when it is as old

Her face was not young, but it was simple; it was not fresh, but it was mild. She had large eyes which were not bright, and a great deal of hair which was not 'dressed,' and long fine hands which were--possibly--not clean.

Is that another sort of joke? asked the old man. You've no excuse for being bored anywhere. When I was your age I had never heard of such a thing.

You can forgive a young cunt anything. A young cunt doesn't have to have brains. They're better without brains. But an old cunt, even if she's brilliant, even if she's the most charming woman in the world, nothing makes any difference. A young cunt is an investment; an old cunt is a dead loss. All they can do for you is buy you things. But that doesn't put meat on their arms or juice between their legs.

If ever there was a guilty age, this is it. Guilt and hysteria. And at the bottom of it all, like an evil dragon, lies Fear.

Believe me; there's nothing clean, nothing healthy, nothing promising about this age of wonders - except the telling.

The young may die, but the old must!

The common contaminated foods which would be the major source of Sr-90 might be classified into five grades- A, B, C, D, and E... The A food would be restricted to children and to pregnant women. The B food would be a high-priced food available to everybody. The C food would be a low priced food also available to everybody. Finally, the D food would be restricted to people over age forty or fifty... Most of these people would die of other causes before they got cancer.