Quotes About Age

Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.

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.

At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual.