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Quotes About Age

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
~ Max Beerbohm
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I write.
~ Virginia Woolf
Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.
~ Margaret Mead
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
~ James Thurber
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Women are as old as they feel - and men are old when they lose their feelings.
~ Mae West
The lovely thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25 year old men more.
~ Colleen McCullough
Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.
~ Marcel Achard
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
~ Oscar Wilde
A kiss: To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; to an old maid, charity.
~ Unknown
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
~ Barbara Pym
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
~ Unknown
Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
~ Leo Buscaglia
An old man in love is like a flower in winter
~ Portuguese Proverb
Age does not protect us from love, But love to some extent protects us from age.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Even in nonindustrialized societies, girls do not start having children the moment they reach menarche; the average age worldwide for a first baby is nineteen, according to a 2008 article in Science.
~ Unknown
For the age of the voice is over and we in the age of the written mark. The word on stone, the word on parchment, the word on cloth, the word that is even greater than the glyph, for the word provoke a sound in the mouth.
~ Marlon James
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
~ Marquis de Sade
As a general rule, people in their 20s want to learn on the job. In their 30s they want to advance. And in their 40s they want to rule. No matter what their age, though, understanding their desires is like trying to pin down mercury.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
The best ideas are like great wines. They improve with age. But they can also go through a dumb period when they need time to settle and sink in.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
~ Marshall McLuhan