Quotes About Age

Don't ever think it's too late for you or that you're too old to dream and have goals.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

I refuse to endure months of expensive humiliation only to be told that at the age of four I was in love with my rocking horse.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age.

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

How the hell should I know? Most of the people my age are dead. You could look it up.

Before a clock was in the tower, Or e'er a watch was worn; I knew of night the passing hour, And prophesied the morn; To man of every age and clime, The oldest chronicler of time.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and how well you look.

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.