Quotes About Age

He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth.

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen...

twenty-eight years old, getting elective surgery

Age is so misleading--you are the same on the inside as ever, only your outsides are different. Or, perhaps you have changed, but it is not like the younger self goes away--you just go on adding layers to the onion. [Édouard Manet]

The idea that old men become peaceful or philosophical--what shit. One learns to endure, that is all. [Édouard Manet]

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Nothing moves an older man more than a confession of inexperience from a younger, particularly if the latter be his social superior.

Coco Chanel famously said that "after forty nobody is young, but one can be irresistible at any age.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Our whole education system is calculated to produce *feelings* in us, impart them to us, instead of leaving their production to ourselves however they may turn out...Thus stuffed with imparted feelings, we appear before the bar of majority and are 'pronounced of age." Our equipment consists of "elevating feelings, lofty thoughts, inspiring maxims,eternal principles.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old.

Pessoalmente, jamais admiti que, ao longo de uma discussão, se procurasse garantir vantagem exibindo a certidão de nascimento. (...) Não importa a idade, mas sim a soberana competência do olhar, que sabe ver as realidades da vida, e a força da alma que é capaz de suportá-las e de elevar-se à altura delas

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes upshe is almost fifty years old.Time to start planning her retirement cottage.

When we're young we have faith in what is seen, but when we're old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.

2. The self-image can be changed. Numerous case histories have shown that one is never too young or too old to change his self-image and thereby start to live a new life. One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

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

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was a romantic suspense set behind the Iron Curtain, my fourth had no wedding bells, not even in the far distance.

Verovala sam u nešto. U život, u tebe, u decu, u nešto nepoznato što ?e biti lepo, u neku nadu, svejedno u šta. Starost je ružna najviše zato što nam uzme sposobnost da u nešto verujemo.

I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.