Quotes About Age

A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

O what fine times, this age of iron!

Who has not the spirit of his age,Of his age has all the unhappiness.

Would you be always young? Then be an Anarchist, and live with the faith of hope, though you be old.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

How far away the stars seem, and how far Is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!

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

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. The years shall run like rabbits For in my arms I hold The Flower of the Ages And the first love of the world. But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.

To The Rain" You reach me out of the age of the air clear falling toward me each one new if any of you has a name it is unknown but waited for you here that long for you to fall through it knowing nothing hem of the garment do not wait until I can love all that I am to know for maybe that will never be touch me this time let me love what I cannot know as the man born blind may love color until all that he loves fills him with color

Voices Over Water" There are spirits that come back to us when we have grown into another age we recognize them just as they leave us we remember them when we cannot hear them some of them come from the bodies of birds some arrive unnoticed like forgetting they do not recall earlier lives and there are distant voices still hoping to find us

here is the known hand again knowing remembering at night after the doubting and the news of age

There are spirits that come back to us when we have grown into another age we recognize them just as they leave us we remember them when we cannot hear them some of them come from the bodies of birds some arrive unnoticed like forgetting they do not recall earlier lives and there are distant voices still hoping to find us — W.S. Merwin, "Voices Over Water," Garden Time . (Copper Canyon Press September 13, 2016)

Old I may be, but, given the chance, I will learn.

Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

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

It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.