Quotes About Age

He wanted to be a universal man . . . and I suppose that isn't possible now. He belongs in fifteenth-century Italy. This age doesn't suit him.

Everyone says how wonderful it is to be young. I've never seen it.

She said she sometimes worked as an usherette in the cinema, and she had seemed to him like a nymph of the cinema age, a sybil of the cavern of illusory love.

Women give more than men; young people more than their elders; people who appear to be of the most modest means seem more generous than the affluent looking.

Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

It's just that old people always think young people haven't really learned about love; and young people think that old people have forgotten about love; and, you know, they're both wrong.

We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men are younger than old men; that they are better looking; that they are slimmer, stronger and more athletic; that they can hold a girl in more romantic fashion and speak more sweetly.

In fact, once when I imprinted on a young lady's lips a chaste and fatherly kiss for about five minutes, I stopped and said, sorrowfully, "Wouldn't you rather be kissed by a twenty-one-year-old boy?" She frowned and said, "Of course not. If you'd ever been kissed by a twenty-one-year-old boy you'd know better than to ask." Remember that. In any direct competition, the old man is bound to win and the young man knows it.

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

Perhaps! Your opinions are yours, of course. Still you are rather young." Dryly. "It is a fault that most people are guilty of at some period of their life. You became mayor of the city when you were two years younger than I am now.

the intruder was an obviously mature thirty, at least—quite elderly, in fact.)

It's just that old people always think young people haven't really learned about love; and young people think that old people have forgotten about love; and, you know, they're both wrong.

That old?" The old man sighed. "History has been crowded since.

la edad, por sí sola, no hace a nadie mejor ni más sabio, sólo acentúa lo que cada uno ha sido siempre.

Vârsta în sine nu îi face pe oameni mai buni sau mai înÈ›elepÈ›i, ci doar înt?reÈ™te tr?s?turile pe care aceÈ™tia le-au avut dintotdeauna.

that in itself age doesn't make anyone better or wiser, but only accentuates what they have always been.

Con la edad se adquiere cierta humildad, Alexander. Mientras más años cumplo, más ignorante me siento. Sólo los jóvenes tienen explicación para todo. A tu edad se puede ser arrogante y no importa mucho hacer el ridículo —replicó ella secamente.

one is never too old to get younger.

Eso pasa con la edad: las historias del pasado cobran vida y se nos pegan en la piel.

Una mujer de cincuenta puede ser invisible en Las Vegas, pero muy atractiva en París.

La objetivación de la mujer es tan predominante que no la percibimos y en la juventud nos esclaviza. El feminismo no nos ha salvado de esa esclavitud. Solo nos libramos con la edad, cuando nos convertimos en seres invisibles y ya no somos objeto de deseo, o cuando alguna tragedia nos sacude hasta los huesos y nos confronta con lo fundamental de la existencia.

Cada minuto es precioso y no podemos perderlo en malentendidos, impaciencia, celos, mezquindades y tantas otras tonterías que ensucian las relaciones. En realidad, esta fórmula se puede aplicar en cualquier edad, porque siempre los días están contados

En este relato, escrito muchos años después de los hechos, deseo ser lo más fiel a la verdad posible, pero la memoria es siempre caprichosa, fruto de lo vivido, lo deseado y la fantasía. La línea que divide la realidad de la imaginación es muy tenue, y a mi edad ya no interesa porque todo es subjetivo. La memoria también está teñida por la vanidad.

ya que todo pariente o amigo de la familia con edad suficiente para llevar el titulo con cierta dignidad, pasa automáticamente a llamarse tío o tía