Quotes About Age

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back. What a chilling idea.

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.

We laughed harder than the humor deserved, which goes to show you no matter your age, you're closer to adolescence than you think.

I daresay with age comes the inclination not to care much what others think.

You're three years older than I. That hardly makes you an ancient crone. Besides, I prefer my women seasoned.Hmm.She arched a brow.With salt or pepper?A little of both.

The Bible specifically notes that Abram was seventy-five years old when this all went down (v. 4). Seventy-five! Abram was no young man, and this blows up two myths: first, that a person needs to have life figured out when he or she is twenty, and second, that God doesn't give great callings to people when they're older and established in life.

Zeitgeist is a German word that means "spirit of the age."  The zeitgeist of Periclean Athens was self-knowledge (supremely embodied in the thought of Socrates), while that of the Middle Ages and Victorianism was hierarchy (Dante) and progress (Tennyson), respectively.  As for the darker zeitgeist of modernism, marked by relativism and subjectivism, though Lewis did not embody it, he understood it better than many of its most ardent supporters.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

All women are beautiful when they are young, and their eyes are full and clear and their voices are soft and their bosoms are round and smooth.

There was something vulgar, even a little improper, in a woman like Sabine who at forty-six looked thirty-five. At

Louie in his early eighties. "I think my skateboarding shakes up a few people. Some stop their cars to be sure their eyes aren't deceiving them.

Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.

Self-awareness: it is one of the chief bonuses of advancing age. It is our consolation prize.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Maybe that's what old men are for. To make decisions that no young man can." He was watching Gamache closely. "Or should have to.

Irene Finney, like many very elderly people, knew that the world was indeed flat. It had a beginning and an end. And she had come to the edge.

You'd hide behind a seventy-three-year-old woman? Are you that much of a coward?

he wondered whether it was always the young who were brave. And the old grew fearful and cowardly. Was

Armand wondered if Florence understood that line from The Little Prince. He hadn't, as a child. It was only as he got older that he knew it to be true.

I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

This village was old, and you don't get to be old without knowing grief. And loss.