Quotes About Age

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.

I'm 57 years old, and I host a quiz show every single day. I got asked in a recent interview, did I feel that hosting a quiz show helps keep my brain sharp? And I asked - would you ask Stephen Fry that question, who is exactly the same age as me? Somehow, I'm managing to stand up and stay cogent despite my incredible age.

I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what you're doing right at that moment and aren't just relying on your success in doing something else, it's all good; people will respect you.

It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.

When you're a dweeb, when you're really young, it stands out. But as everybody gets older and more conservative, it's not an issue any more.

There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

Men become old, but they never become good.

Old men ought to be explorers.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?