Quotes About Age

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will mend, this is every day getting worse.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

If youth knew; if age could.

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own.

The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, Could I get you your check? and we answered, How about the menu first?

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.