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Quotes About Age

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You know you're only old if you want to be.
~ Thomas King
THERE HE REMAINED for almost two years, cut off from every other scholar or mathematician. The isolation suited him. "In those days," he would recall half a century later, "I was in the prime of my age for invention & minded Mathematics & Philosophy more than at any time since.
~ Thomas Levenson
A kind of intellectual Gresham's Law is gathering momentum: where once the rule was "bad money drives out good," we now live in an age where misinformation pushes aside knowledge.
~ Thomas M. Nichols
What though youth gave love and roses,Age still leaves us friends and wine.
~ Thomas Moore
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
~ Thomas Paine
Though age will naturally exempt a person from personal service, it cannot exempt him from his share of the charge, because the men are raised for the defence of property and liberty jointly.
~ Thomas Paine
Error in opinion has this peculiar advantage with it, that the foremost point of the contrary ground may at any time be reached by the sudden exertion of a thought; and it frequently happens in sentimental differences, that the striking circumstance, or some forcible reason quickly conceived, will effect in an instant what neither argument nor example could produce in an age.
~ Thomas Paine
There are few pleasures equal to that of imparting to a voracious learner the knowledge that one has grown old and weary in acquiring.
~ Thornton Wilder
I suppose it seems ignoble to you that a great oak of a man should go about the world like a blind man about an empty house merely because a chit of a girl has been withdrawn from it. No, no, you cannot understand this, my adored one, but I understand and grow pale...You will laugh at me, but I think he goes about the hemispheres to pass the time between now and his old age.
~ Thorton Wilder
Bhima smiles. "Beti, the past is always present," she says. "No such thing as bringing it up. The past is like the skin on your hand—it was there yesterday and it is here today. It never goes anywhere. Maybe when you're older you'll understand this better.
~ Thrity Umrigar
In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
~ Tim Bishop
But when (as will inevitably happen) mature women are again seen as sexy, it's likely that the maxi and midi will make their triumphant return as sexy garments. Fashion
~ Tim Gunn
Doing as many makeovers as I do, I've learned a few things about what makes women feel better about themselves. The starting point is usually getting a new haircut. I don't want to generalize, because every case is different, but I think it's best to err on the side of styling your hair shorter the older you get. In my opinion, it's generally not a good look for women over thirty to have hair way below their shoulders.
~ Tim Gunn
Stats are stats but if you want to be sure you're going to have, say, three children with no problems, you should start at around 23.
~ Mary Nightingale
There's no reason to hide anything; there's just timeliness of age and what's appropriate.
~ Farrah Abraham
There's no reason women in their late 30s and 40s shouldn't be thought of sexually.
~ Yvette Mimieux
Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say you have to dress a certain way or be a certain way.
~ Tina Turner
Nobody wants to see the old person at the club.
~ Ad-Rock
Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
~ Iris Apfel
In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.
~ Ludovico Einaudi
The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise.
~ Robert Scoble
If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.
~ Loretta Swit
The idea that it's only the young or people who've grown up with a technology who can appreciate it. Complete nonsense!
~ David Starkey