Quotes About Age

She was twenty-eight but already jaded. Twenty-eight seemed a particularly unsatisfactory age. She was no longer young and yet no one ever seemed to take her seriously as an adult. People still told her what to do all the time, it was infuriating. Her only power seemed to be over her own children and even that was limited by endless negotiation.

Boys took a long time to become men but daughters were women from the kickoff.

He could hardly beat them up, they were still – technically – children and he preferred to restrict his acts of violence to people old enough to fight for their country.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

Men are but children of a larger growth.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.