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Quotes About Age

Biological age is much more important than chronological age.
~ Unknown
The young sometimes find it uncomfortable to accept that wrinkly and slightly wobbly old folk may be just as bright as they are and this is perhaps because they realise that when intelligence is added to wisdom gained through experience, the sum of the two is considerably more potent than the one alone.
~ Unknown
Intersectionality To the strange folk wandering through the byways of Agenda 21, intersectionality (an ugly word if ever I saw one – as, incidentally, are many of the words created by and for the Agenda 21 disciples) is the theory that as individuals we are discriminated against and oppressed by social identities such as race, sex and class. (They never mention age, of course, because old people don't count.)
~ Unknown
Yes," said Ravna, "on Nyjora." In the Age of Princesses, there had been the Elder Princess and the Younger, the Techie. The Age of Princesses was the most recent rediscovery of civilization in any known human history—and that civilization was also the ancestor of Ravna's Sjandra Kei and therefore of Johanna's Straumli Realm.
~ Vernor Vinge
Democratic citizenship requires knowledge of war—and now, in the age of weapons of mass annihilation, more than ever.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
~ Victor Hugo
Forty is the old age of youth while fifty is the youth of old age.
~ Victor Hugo
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
~ Sophia Loren
My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.
~ Penelope Cruz
This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.
~ Sharon Stone
If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
~ William Shakespeare
When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
~ Maxine Kumin
We can be beautiful at all ages. Feminine beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, colors, ways.
~ Lauren Hutton
Beauty is revealed when we learn to see with our hearts. The more educated our hearts the greater beauty we can see. Therefore, beauty is revealed with age.
~ Arthur Dobrin
Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.
~ Robert Boyle
Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.
~ Pierre de Ronsard
It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.
~ Kate Moss
Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.
~ George Augustus Henry Sala
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
~ Coco Chanel
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
~ Lord Byron