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Quotes About Age

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
~ Alva Myrdal
My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
~ Vinnie Jones
It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.
~ John le Carre
Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
~ Anna Garlin Spencer
I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.
~ Shane MacGowan
It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.
~ Sandy Wilson
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
~ Alexander Pope
We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year be on the receiving end of this demagoguery.
~ Dan Savage
There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.
~ Joyce Kilmer
I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age
~ Charles Bukowski
That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.
~ Gloria Naylor
Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.
~ Ann-Margret
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
~ Dean Koontz
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
~ Saul Bellow
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.
~ Thomas de Quincey
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.
~ Dolly Parton
This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in biblical times, we'd probably have been offered another commandment free if we had accepted the first ten.
~ Earl Wilson
I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
~ Nina Totenberg
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
~ Ezra Pound
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
~ Michael Caine
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
~ Gene Fowler