Quotes About Age

Being a comedian is probably the only job apart from undertaking that isn't age restricted.

So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.

It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

Change is inevitable with the evolution of technology. In the '70s, we had records. In the '80s, we had CDs, and now we are living in the digital age. You can say it's sad or unfortunate, but the reality is you've got to roll with the times and the technology.

If I were younger, I'd know more.

To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.

I've always believed with age comes wisdom. And I find salt and pepper hair to be very attractive.

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.

You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.

They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.

Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.

Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.