Quotes About Age

Aemon's blind white eyes came open. "Egg?" he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. "Egg, I dreamed that I was old.

Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.

The air smelled of paper and dust and years.

Older than sin and twice as mean

These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.

A little brother may live to be a hundred, but he will always be a little brother.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.

Death should hold no fear for a man as old as me, but it does. Isn't that silly? It is always dark where I am, so why should I fear the darkness? Yet I cannot help but wonder what will follow, when the last warmth leaves my body.

he'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.

Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, and age for gods and heroes.

I am too old a soldier to believe that. Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones.

The grey sheep have closed their eyes, but the mastiff sees the truth. Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, an age for gods and heroes.

There are old sellswords and bold sellswords, but no old bold sellswords.

A fable from the Age of Heroes." The maester tsked. "You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.

My uncle Maegor was cruel," Alysanne was heard to say, "but age is crueler.

He will not be three forever. And winter is coming.

Septa Mordane said boar hunting was not for ladies, and mother only promised that when she was older she might have her own hawk. She was older now, but if she had a hawk she'd eat it.

Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish.

The thoughts of youth,' he continued, 'are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors that oft make brilliant the sky, but the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon them to steer his course.

It is not, in the common and cheap misuse of the term, the most "romantic" arrangement, but some not imperfect in lovelore have held that a woman's love is never so strong as when she is past girlhood and well approaching age, and that a man's is never stronger than when he is just not a boy.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.