Quotes About Age

beware women grown old who were never anything but young

You boys can keep your virgins, give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

Ich bin ein alter Witz, und schlafe ein.

then I was a young man a thousand years old, and now I am an old man waiting to be born.

a man can be old and a fool many are a man can be young and wise few are

My heart is a thousand years old.

Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.

The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won't go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36.

Think of being 80 and fucking a 18 yeard old girl. If there was any way to cheat the game of death, that was it.

Don't let anybody tell you different. Life begins at 65.

pitäkää te pojat neitsyenne antakaa minulle kuumia korkeakorkoisia vanhoja naisia joiden perseet unohtivat vanheta

I think that when a woman has kept her legs closed for 35 years it's too late either for love or for poetry.

we have everything and we have nothing. some do it well enough for a while and then give way. fame gets them or disgust or age or lack of proper diet or ink across the eyes or children in college or new cars or broken backs while skiing in Switzerland or new politics or new wives or just natural change and decay—

ihminen voi olla vanha ja tyhmä ? monet ovat, ihminen voi olla nuori ja viisas ? harvat ovat.

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity. ? Charles Bukowski, Women (: Ecco; Reprint edition, February 27, 2007) Originally published 1978.

The good die old, I thought.

to be writing poetry at the age of 50 like a schoolboy, surely, I must be crazy;

he found the most experienced leaders of the age at the head of armies that had just fanaticism enough to be ferocious, but not enough to render them ungovernable.

But hereditary diseases and some other facts make me believe that the rule has a wider extension, and that, when there is no apparent reason why a peculiarity should appear at any particular age, yet it does tend to appear in the offspring at the same period at which it first appeared in the parent. I believe this rule to be of the highest importance in explaining the laws of embryology.

man's bodily condition depends on his state of mind. No two persons the same age are in exactly the same bodily condition. This shows that years do not make man young or old. "For as he thinketh within himself, so is he" (Prov. 23:7).

How very sad anniversaries become. They are for the young and hopeful and for the very old and hopeless. A spark of expectation reveals the gloomy, weary waste.

A traveller on a dusty road ?Strewed acorns on the lea; And one took root and sprouted up, ?And grew into a tree. Love sought its shade at evening-time, ?To breathe its early vows; And Age was pleased, in heights of noon, ?To bask beneath its boughs. The dormouse loved its dangling twigs, ?The birds sweet music bore— It stood a glory in its place, ?A blessing evermore.

Christopher, leaving his tea untouched, faced the two old men. He supposed they might be sixty, but it was impossible to tell with Asians; one year they were fresh with youth, and the next their skulls came through their flesh as if their corpses were eager to escape into the grave.

you'd better get rid of the idea that either one of us, or anyone else in this day and age, can appeal to the general interest, to patriotism or common sense, and achieve a result that's in the best interests of the country.