Quotes About Age

sicché gli animi freddi e stanchi per l'esperienza delle cose, erano confortati vedendo il calore e le speranze dell'età verde.

Until age forty a man has the face he was born with, at forty he has the face he deserves." George

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Is that the ultimate paradox of life, she wondered, that the universe should become less clear with age?

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.

After a certain age, you finally become the indisputable authority on the subject of yourself.

Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad.

Sabe como são os jovens, levam tudo terrivelmente a sério, é a maldição dessa idade.

Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

It can be argued that doo-wop is a great, unequivocal uniter of white men of a certain age and temperament.

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

When she visited me in New York during her sixties and seventies, she always told taxi drivers that she was eighty years old ("so they will tell me how young I look"), and convinced theater ticket sellers that she had difficulty in hearing long before she really did ("so they'll give us seats in the front row").

Being seventy is not a sin.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

Because the Bible is God's Word, it has eternal relevance; it speaks to all humankind, in every age and in every culture.

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.

It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.

Middle age is when the narrow waist and the broad mind begin to change places.

Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever — but would rather not.

And these vicissitudes tell best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Hath won the experience which is deem'd so weighty.

Great artists say that the most beautiful thing in the world is a baby. Well, the next is an old lady, for every wrinkle is a picture.

[T]he drama that is associated usually with the young as they fully begin to enter life—with adolescents, with young men... can also startle and lay siege to the aged.... Maybe the most potent discoveries are reserved for last.