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Quotes About Age

To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg
No man knows he is young while he is young.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
~ G. Norman Collie
I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers.
~ Gabriel Bá
For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
~ Gabriel Mann
No tiene más de cuarenta años, y las arrugas le hacen una reja de prisionero, y la prisión es verdadera y corresponde a la fatiga y al desengaño que por fin le han atrapado. Las arrugas lo trabajan de dentro afuera, al revés de los demás hombres maduros. A todos les estropea la edad y a éste el corazón, su enemigo, el clavo de adentro que no se puede despuntar.
~ Gabriela Mistral
You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
she'd felt old, but that night, she realized she wasn't old at all. You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You made quite an impression on the old man, by the way." "You mean Uncle Yuri?" "He said he'd marry you. If you weren't related. And if he were fifty years younger. Et cetera. Et cetera." "That a lot of very important 'ifs', Jacks.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I forget how young you are. You're still at the age where you mistake your friends and your colleagues for family." "Yes, Dov," she said, trying to hide her irritation. "When you have children, you'll never be able to worry about a friend as much again," Dov said.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
At a certain age—in Sadie's case, thirty-four—there comes a time when life largely consists of having meals with old friends who are passing through town.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I forget how young you are. You're still at the age where you mistake your friends and your colleagues for family.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Typically, a game character stays the same age and of the series---think Mario or Lara Croft. The reasons for this are simple: branding, and it is much less work .
~ Gabrielle Zevin
as coisas que nos tocam aos vinte não são necessariamente as que nos tocam aos quarenta, e vice-versa. isso é verdade para livros e para a vida.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I didn't call you because I had met someone better, and when that didn't work out, I decided to give you a second chance. So don't be thinking you're superior. You've got a decent smile, I'll give you that, but your teeth are too big and so is your ass and you're not twenty-five anymore even if you drink like you are. You shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I stopped 'not' looking at her breasts for a moment in order to look in her eyes. I saw amusement and understanding there, and I was in love. At that age (or any age for that matter), our hearts are simple enough.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
In their price range on Alice Island, all the houses are starter homes, though A.J. feels like he is past the starter home age of his life. Weird kitchens and floorplans, too-small rooms, ominous references to foundation issues.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
B?dami dvidešimties ? tam tikrus dalykus reaguojame vienaip, o sulauk? keturiasdešimties jau žvelgiame kitaip, ir atvirkš?iai. Tai tinka ir knygoms, ir gyvenime.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She felt, perhaps, old. She was still only twenty-five, but until that point, she had always been the youngest in any room she'd been in, and she had derived power from that.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She is thirty-one years old and she thinks she should have met someone by now.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What kind of guitar would he make for this pretty harper with her sweet voice and stranger manners, who appeared so young but who seemed at times so old? It would have to glow with all the luster of her hair, and he knew he would have to give to it the feeling of ancient forests, of standing stones, and misty downs. Nothing else would be appropriate. Noth else would fit.
~ Gael Baudino