Quotes About Age

For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes.

I'm a goofy old fart, but I still have fun. Have you ever been on a rollercoaster? I'm so old I get that same sensation just rolling over in bed.

I am already at an age and additionally in a state where I must always wash my feet thoroughly before bed, in the event of having to be removed be an ambulance in the Night.

Infants and old people look the same.

all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it is automatic. Not only invisible to men, but also women, who no longer treat her as competition. It is a new and surprising sensation, how people's eyes just sort of float right over her face. They look straight through her, no doubt looking past her at ads and landscapes and schedules.

O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline - How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease!

How happy he who crowns in shades like these,A youth of labor with an age of ease.

The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.

an age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.

The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

Worldliness is always a spiritual myopia. It falls for the spirit and system of the age and fails to correct itself through the correcting lenses of the perspective of the global (the Church in other continents), the historical (the Church in other centuries), and above all, the eternal (the Word of God across all places and times). Over