Quotes About Age

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.

You seem damn sure of yourself for a man your age?" "I am as old as I can be at my age. I don't know very much, but I know the water.

At any age there is future one doesn't have. Never enough life when you are happy, that was the thing. Never so much bliss that you can't take a little more.

Old is beautiful, but not if it is neglected.—Aldo Lorenzi, That Shop in Via Montenapoleone

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

Rayner avait sans doute une dizaine d'années de plus que moi. Ce qui ne pose en soi aucun problème. J'entretiens des relations chaleureuses, sans bras cassés, avec quantité de personnes de cet âge.

Rayner, I estimated, was ten years older than me. Which was fine. Nothing wrong with that. I have good, warm, non-arm-breaking relationships with plenty of people who are ten years older than me. People who are ten years older than me are, by and large, admirable. But Rayner was also three inches taller than me, four stones heavier, and at least eight however-you-measure-violence units more violent.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.

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.

the juvenile delinquent or JD being a conflation of race and age into a condition which gave those so afflicted a magic air of special danger.

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.

Thus, they were asking: do higher intelligence test scores from about age 20 predict better educational outcomes, higher social position, and arguably more pro-social behaviours in the thirties? The answer was: they did. They then asked if this was due to (confounded by) parental socio-economic status; it mostly wasn't.

It is an Age where any sort of debauchery is tolerated, as long as it brings fame with it.

He studied Arch Gowrie now. The man was big and fiftyish and probably attractive to women in that way older men could be.

I went to the Oxford Bar first off, but they said they hardly see you these days. I'm at the age where nothing should surprise me, but

They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

Le preguntaron a Abboud of Omdurman: "¿Qué es mejor, ser joven o ser viejo?" Él dijo: "Ser viejo es tener menos tiempo ante ti y más errores detrás. Dejo a tu elección si esto es mejor que lo contrario.