Quotes About Age

A significant number of people over the age of 65 would like to downsize into more suitable accommodation, yet they are unable to do so. This causes a bottleneck in the housing market that ripples down to first-time buyers.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the picture book section anymore. It's filled with moms, strollers, and unbalanced toddlers.

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who painted them, what they mean.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age.

It was important to me to have a wedding and walk in white, because sometimes we feel that at a certain age you should act a certain way. You can find love at any age. You just have to go for it.

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

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.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.