Quotes About Age

You are as young as you think.

Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.

If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection.

Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.

For years I wanted to be older and now I am.

Never think any oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

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

The process of maturing is an art to be learned an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are and if it is good it is better than your youth.

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit.

And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

In the age of globalization pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.

There's a reason there aren't any fifty-five-year-old terrorists, or at least there weren't until they all started watching Fox News. Destroying things is for the young.

Here is Chang Ch'ao on reading at different times in your life: "Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace. This is because the depth of benefits of reading varies in proportion to the depth of one's own experience.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Of all persons living, he who does not remember that he has once been young, is the most completely disqualified for giving youthful counsel.

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest

What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.

That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another's arms, birds in the trees—Those dying generations—at their song,The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer longWhatever is begotten, born, and dies.Caught in that sensual music all neglectMonuments of unaging intellect.

An old man's eagle mind.

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.