Quotes About Age

Don't trust anyone over thirty," the 1960s radicals cried. "Don't trust anyone under three hundred," came Thomas Oden's wise reply.

Don't trust anyone over thirty," the 1960s radicals cried. "Don't trust anyone under three hundred," came Thomas Oden's wise reply. "Vox temporis" (the voice of the times) is no more trustworthy than "vox populi" (the voice of the people) when set against "vox dei" (the voice of God).

Most people would take me for over forty.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

You are young enough! — and yet, I don't know; it is a popular fallacy that time counts by years. One is old according to the style of one's life, not the length of it.

Do you imagine that a corrupt age cannot revere, that an artificial age cannot be stirred by truth, that an abject age cannot rise to comprehension under the compelling force of genius ?—you are wrong to doubt. Was it not the vilest of the Pagan ages that gave credence, and foothold, and tenure, to the faiths and the philosophies of Paul 1

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

On my last birthday I was ninety-three years old. That is not young, of course. In fact, it is older than ninety. But age is a relative matter. If you continue to work and to absorb the beauty in the world about you, you find that age does not necessarily mean getting old. At least, not in the ordinary sense. I feel many things more intensely than ever before, and for me life grows more fascinating.

It takes a very long time to become young.

sabía también, si se llama saber a esa certeza absoluta que se va adquiriendo a fuerza de repensar lo mismo, y que las viejas del pueblo llaman manías, que después de los 30, un hombre no puede hacerse amigo de una mujer. Que hay mucho sexo alborotado envuelto en la relación, mucho romanticismo a destiempo, mucho fantasma entre falda y pantalón para que las cosas funcionen.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." —ALBERT EINSTEIN, GERMAN

what if you could have all the wisdom of a lifetime and still look like you looked when you were twenty-five' 'or what?' I say. 'what, what' she says. I say, 'I thought we were playing Would You Rather...?' She twists her head like a dog at a foghorn. 'Marla,' I say, 'you get the wisdom because you don't anymore look like you did when you were twenty-five.' She says, 'You don't understand the rules to this game.

I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life at 45 ... I didn't know this exercise thing felt so good.

This book is dedicated to all the women—and men—who know that the human desire for romance, love, and sexual passion has nothing to do with age.

Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. "Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself over women since before you were born.

The ability to remember names peaks, on average, in your early twenties.)

Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in her old age

you were thirty, you were a failure," she told the audience. "And now a lot of young women think that if they aren't seriously successful before thirty, they're a failure. So I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after thirty—and forty, and fifty, and sixty, and seventy-seven! Believe me, life is one long surprise. And you can't plan it, but you can prepare.

As Keynes wrote, with devastating understatement, 'The age of economic internationalism was not particularly successful in avoiding war.