Quotes About Age

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

At my age, I'm envious of a stiff wind.

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

When the age is in, the wit is out.

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety, other women cloy.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.