Quotes About Age

Love ain't got no business happenin' to the young. Only the old be wise enough to treat it right.

I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.

If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.

If you think you're too old for rock 'n' roll, then you are.

Since I was about twenty-five, nothing changed, except I got smarter and wiser and things have an effect on you. But I never thought I was any older, really. It was just a very long twenty-five!

But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case, welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

The old man… used to say that a nap "after dinner was silver—before dinner, golden."

Madame, lei ha una barricata che assalterei volentieri, se non fossi in là con gli anni e ormai disabituato al servizio militare». « Signore! » rispose la vedova senza distogliere lo sguardo dal suo lavoro d'intreccio. «La sua gentilezza mi fa onore»

Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.

How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I ceased to be a child I often longed to be like one.

The sex... it was age appropriately fantastic.

Life experience?" I repeated tightly. "Big picture? I've had more life experience in fourteen years than you've had in — what are you, like, a hundred?

He had never been particularly young, or to put it another way, he had been young for a long time and now was at his true age, old enough for civilized comfrots and not too old for the primal ones.

she was motionless, like an old woman who has lived too long.

The children playing by the fountains will become old men, but nothing of this will have changed

The Duke is lamer than I am old, and I am shorter than he is cold, but it comes to you with some surprise that I am wiser than he is wise.

The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth. ~ African Proverb

Children march in lockstep through grades with their age peers, regardless of their capabilities.

Forty-five might seem old to you now, but I promise you it isn't. I'm not yet half as old as my grandmother was when she passed away. I hope I still have a lot of living to do.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.