Quotes About Age

It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.

Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.

Each age recreates its own justice system and selects the judges and other personnel to run it. And in each age, the status, reputation, and standing of the judges is reinvented to suite the purposes of the day.

to be old...anonymous as the clouds

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

He was talented, at an age when other boys were horrible kissers, just horrible and sloppy. I was fourteen then, and he was sixteen.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

This is the age which, although proclaimed as one of physical and moral freedom, is in truth the age of the most ferocious moral and mental slavery, the like of which was never known before.

It is no accident that, of the early Jesuit scholars who were pioneers in making China's culture known in Europe, those who concerned themselves with the Book of Changes were all later declared to be insane or heretic. Indeed, to the Chinese themselves the study of the I Ching is not to be taken lightly. By an unwritten law, only those advanced in years regard themselves as ready to learn from it. Confucius is said to have been seventy years old when he first took up the Book of Changes.

If all of the presently observable universe pooled its matter to create one giant black hole, its radius measured in light-years would amount to the same number as its age in actual years: approximately 10^10.

I'm so old that when I order a three-minute egg they make me pay up front.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Nietzsche, in cursing our age, sees in it the heritage of the Gospel, while Dostoevsky, cursing it just as vigorously, sees in it the result of a denial of the Gospel

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait [If youth but knew, if old age but could].

If youth but know, And old age only could.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.