Quotes About Age

He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, flat seriousness, stoicism--all the aids whereby a man may savor, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life... 'I have attained the age of reason.

This then is the age of reason.

I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

I'm 74 but I feel like I'm 35. And it isn't work. You know what it is? It's fun, absolute fun. I don't know many people who are fortunate enough to be in a business like that.

If people don't learn to work by the time they're in their 30s, they're never very productive.

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

I've reached a certain age where I love to work. I could just live here [at the studio].

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

My music is genuine, and I'm talking about stuff that no one else - no one my age, anyway, in the game - is talking about. Nobody. I'm the only one really stating facts and speaking with real street knowledge.

People who don't know how old I am can cast me as the woman in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and can cast me as Stella in 'Streetcar Named Desire,' and they are miles apart.

Bath was dusty and a little shabby when we moved here. It did look its age and you felt its history in its streets and buildings and little alleyways. The sense of the past was palpable. There were some bad modern buildings but there was a patina of age.

Fitness has always been a strength of mine. People seem to look at ages and think once you get over 30, you're coming to the end. I'd like to think I've got a number of years left in me. I feel really good, and that's down to the great work the staff at the club do looking after us and the facilities we have.

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

Strictly?' That's for older people, I watch 'X Factor.'

Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.

They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that.