Quotes About Age

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

Donald Trump and the Bomb are nearly the same age. Which of them will prove to be more destructive remains to be seen, but in combination they are terrifying.

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.

The press keep asking me but I will stop when I stop scoring. The problem is football is very ageist. When you reach 30, they keep talking about your age.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

I think that age is a number. Right now I feel good and I'm playing well, so I think that 36 is good.

I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.

Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I'm 25 in the rest of the world, but I'm about 48 in actress years. I'm just around the corner from my midlife crisis.