Quotes About Age

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.

Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age; one is lost in them the other hidden.