Quotes About Age

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

They should raise the alcohol age to 60, so at least you'd have something to look forward to at this point.

Everyone always says it's a blessing to look a lot younger than my age, but sometimes I just want to look my real age.

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.

It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays.

We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.