Quotes About Age

A woman of a certain age must learn to hear what suits her purpose," Theodora said with a naughty smile. "Old women and cats do as they please.

Maybe, by a certain age, we have all encountered some impossible loss, or at least the accumulation of small sufferings.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

i love girls under pressure but wouldn't recommend it to people who are under 10. i read it at the age of nine but my sister told me the bit u should never do. all in all, i loved this book and any jacqueline wilson fans over 10 i would recommend it to!

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

I was eleven, the idea of two identical digits in my age still new and spectacular and heartbreaking. The girls must have felt this. They must have known. Where had ten, nine, eight, and seven gone?

Old people used to always say, You only as old as you feel. Here I am closer to fifty than forty, but I feel older than that most days. Feel like the world is trying to pull me down back into it.

In periods when shallow speculation is rife, one might think that metaphysics would shine forth, at least, by the brilliance of its modest reserve. But the very age that is unaware of the majesty of metaphysics, likewise overlooks its poverty. Its majesty? It is wisdom. Its poverty? It is human science.

une dame a la langue fanée une dame longue plus longue que sa chaise longue et très âgée

Has she glanced you way yet?" Twice," Nick said on a note of satisfaction. Meaning?" Nick glanced at him. "She's not completely disinterested." I see Moreland. That makes it an even half dozen hanging out for a rich wife. Four looking for their second. Rossman, the old satyr, certainly isn't likely to be much competition. What in the hell does he think he's doing anyway? He must be sixty." Basking, I should think. She hasn't given him the cold shoulder yet," Nick responded coolly.

Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

She patted Teresita on the head. She was five years older when she rose than when she'd sat down.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Nisso reside nossa possível tragédia: o desperdício de uma vida com seus talentos truncados se não conseguirmos ver ou não tivermos audácia para mudar para melhor — em qualquer momento, e em qualquer idade.

People did not know what she knew, that she was not really a woman but a man, often a fat man, but more often, probably, an old man. The fact that she was an old man made it hard for her to be a young woman. It was hard for her to talk to a young man, for instance, though the young man was clearly interested in her. She had to ask herself, Why is this young man flirting with this old man?

105 years old: she wouldn't be alive today even if she hadn't died.

Was I, in fact, afraid of the present age, and was I even glad, rather than merely surprised, that the glaciers might return?

Yet my confusion must be this: though her body is old, her capacity for betrayal is still young and fresh.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Ontem um velhinho de oitenta e dois anos atravessou o Canal da Mancha, vupt! vupt! nadando. A múmia chegou inteira e ainda pediu um conhaque.

Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.