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Quotes About Age

It is personalities not principles that move the age.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.
~ Neil Postman
I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.
~ Paul Engle
perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.
~ Candace Wheeler
I'm the age I am, but my skin is in pretty good condition because I've been consistent with my skincare.
~ Cate Blanchett
Almost any age is better than twenty-two.
~ David Rakoff, Fraud: Essays
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
~ George Foreman
My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.
~ Robert Orben
If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.
~ Edgar Howe
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
~ Mason Cooley
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
~ Mason Cooley
Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.
~ Karl Kraus
In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.
~ Samuel Johnson
I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.
~ Garrison Keillor
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.
~ Mason Cooley
National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.
~ Fran Lebowitz
The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.
~ Gordon Stein
Gravity": "It's the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.
~ Tina Fey
You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution
~ Abraham Lincoln
You can't win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. It's a fact.
~ Kevin O'Leary