Quotes About Age

Old Father Time fox-trots across my golden locks!

My younger passions are still listening as I age.

At a certain point, age becomes a triumph of spirit over loneliness.

Age 29. Women. — It sometimes happens, that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.

Autumn is Spring turned antique.

It's never too late to become what you want to be. Unless you want to be younger.

The younger brother hath the more wit.

CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. As usual, what we call "Progress" is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.

The convention of one age is the laughing-stock of the next.

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy, because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.

Full many a man, both young and old, Is brought to his sarcophagus, By pouring water, icy cold, Adown his warm æsophagus.

People often say to a boy when he eats between meals: "It will spoil your dinner." But, piecing between meals never spoils your meals until after you pass forty.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.

Grandmothers are just antique little girls. Grandfathers are just antique little boys.

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside.

Era más viejo que sus años. Vinculaba el pasado al presente, y la eternidad latía en él en un ritmo poderoso que dominaba todas sus acciones.

And he dreamed as only age can dream upon the colossal futility of youth.

Like Earth, Navarth was old, irresponsible and melancholy, full of a dangerous mirth.

Age settled with more grace on ordinary people, but for celebrities Ã¢â'¬â€ women stars in particular Ã¢â'¬â€ age became a hatchet that vandalized a work of art.

I believe it is to our detriment that age gives us a certain mistrust of those younger than ourselves, and we fail to see the strength within them to assume the burden of truth.

The boy laughed, for he was a boy and not yet a man.

Those of us who have reached our more mature years know the value of a nap, Maisie, and we can indulge ourselves without the comfort of pillow or bed.

Sometimes the worries of the world give one pause for thought, and one wonders—especially someone of my antiquity—why history is not a more efficient teacher.