Quotes About Age

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of sh.. that it demanded.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Age will bring all things, and everyone knows, Madame, that twenty is no age to be a prude.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.

He's as good at his age as Jack (Nicklaus) was, and look at what Jack has done in the gime of golf. That's the highest praise I can give anyone, to compare him to Jack Nicklaus.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society.

In this glorious new age, a key question is this: Just how American is entrepreneurship? The word, of course, is French.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.