Quotes About Age

my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

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

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!

A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

I like a boyish quality in a man, somebody who is still adventurous. But I have no rules. I do not care - within reason - about your chronological age. I care whether you have passion in your life.

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

A man is as old as his arteries.

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.