Quotes About Age

I was visited by my mother in spring 1968. I had not seen her since the end of the Rivonia Trial. Change is gradual and incremental, and when one lives in the midst of one's family, one rarely notices differences in them. But when one doesn't see one's family for many years at a time, the transformation can be striking. My mother suddenly seemed very old.

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

Any boy seems, nowadays, a tried and wicked 47 years old dwarf.

the kind of life-fatigue she occasionally glimpses in the eyes of the very, very old.

perhaps love was like the mumps. If a woman came down with it after forty, it could kill her

Then the patience borne of seventy years of disappointments came to his aid;

Desirée wore black for her April Fool's party. On any other woman of her age it would have been a disastrous dress but, by virtue of a sort of inner effrontery, she got away with it. Her neck, her bosom and that dismal little region, known, prettily, as the armpit, were all so many statements of betrayal, but she triumphed over them and not so much took them in her own stride as obliged other people to take them in theirs.

The tops of pages are river-and-rain-warped, the whole book buckled a bit from travel, age and pockets, but it's a book that feels companionable somehow, if you know what I mean. In it there are many pages with lines underscored, or in some cases with just ascending wing-like Nike tick-marks next to a paragraph.

The 1918 influenza pandemic famously had a W-shaped curve. The very young and the very old were at increased risk, but there was also elevated risk in the middle of the age distribution, spiking in patients around twenty-five years old. Scientists have been studying this for decades but are still unsure why it happened.

In early April 2020, many hospitals around the country were preparing policies related to triage that were based in part on age. Reports had emerged of the necessity of such triage in Italy in the previous month.42 Should circumstances require, the very old were to be denied ventilators or taken off them so that the ventilators might be reassigned to younger people more likely to survive.

He was neither good looking nor ugly, and while he would not have turned a young girl's head, someone older might have been struck by his face and the evidence of passion which had left its traces. ~p17

We get so set in our ways, you know? I mean, when you meet someone in your teens, like you two did, well, you're still growing, aren't you? You automatically adjust so that you fit together. But when you're my age, all the likes and dislikes are set in stone. That's the trouble.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues. GEORGE ORWELL, 1946

Francis Wheen will release Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

the Messenger of God consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old'.

In Iran after the 1979 revolution, the Islamists reduced the minimum age of marriage for girls to nine. In 2000, under pressure from women's rights activists, the Iranian parliament voted to raise it to fifteen. However, the Council of Guardians, an anti-democratic oversight body dominated by traditional clerics, vetoed the reform, saying that the new ruling was contrary to Islamic law.

You are a prophet and a seer with the brightest mind in an age. Your blood is that of a man who should have been king and a woman who is half sister to the king of Kent and wants to be a queen. That's what the king and his lords see. And they will kill you, one day. If not Edwin, then the king who kills him.

He was younger than old Yvain, his voice as supple as a withy-wound chariot.

As the sun went down and left candlelight wavering over brow and throat, wrist and mouth, it seemed for a moment that they could be almost the same age: two women enjoying a conversation.

To refute the new morality, all one needs to do is examine the faces of its aged devotees.

The imbecile does not discover the radical misery of our condition except when he is sick, poor, or old.

Ingratitude, disloyalty, resentment, rancor define the plebeian soul in every age and characterize this century.

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show,Unerring wisdom never dwelt below;Folly in all of every age we see,The only difference lies in the degree.

In cities the old are more corrupt than the young.