Quotes About Age

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

I would sooner say, or hear it said of me, that I was so typical a child of my age, that in my perversity, and for that perversity`s sake, I turned the good things of my life to evil, and the evil things of my life to good.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.

Wenn ein Mann alt genug ist, um unrecht zu tun, so sollte er alt genug sein, um recht zu tun.

The more abstract, the more ideal an art is, the more it reveals to us the temper of its age. If we wish to understand a nation by means of its art, let us look at its architecture or its music.

La tragedia de la vejez no consiste en ser viejo, sino en haber sido joven.

We live in the age of the over-worked, and under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Was verabscheuenswerter sei, die Zeichen der Sünde oder die des Alter.

But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in this nineteenth century of ours. Of course he does. I, of all men, am not going to deny that. But remember that there has never been an artistic age, or an artistic people since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been, and will always be, an exquisite exception.

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age.  It looks so calculating .

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one is young.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. It always means that they have a history.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age.  London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.  Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point.  To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now. 

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder. As for the aged, I always contradict the aged. I do it on principle. If you ask them their opinion on something that happened yesterday, they solemnly give you the opinions current in 1820, when people wore high stocks, believed in everything, and knew absolutely nothing.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into this world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

I'm sorry. You do realize, don't you, that we are practically strangers? ' 'Girls often employ that specious argument on a man. Only to discover later that he was a tadpole and they were a fish in the Palazeoic age. And then they look silly.

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.