Quotes About Age

We were married at All Saints on a sun-shocked Wednesday in October, two weeks before my seventeenth birthday. The legal marrying age was eighteen then, but my father thought I was old enough, and that seemed good enough for me.

At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world with the indifference of a condemned man.

No, seventy-two. He had just turned seventy-two on March 15, yesterday, as he had turned sixteen just before Horseshoe Bend and at that time it would have been beyond belief that he would even live to see this age, much less be traveling along a distant road far to the west, still in one piece, alive and unaccountably happy.

The Captain stepped into the stirrup and was proud of the fact that at age seventy-one he could step up from the ground onto a sixteen-hand horse. With some pain but no flinching he swung into the saddle.

As to the age of Hesiod and Homer, I have conducted very careful researches into this matter, but I do not like to write on the subject, as I know the quarrelsome nature of those especially who constitute the modern school of epic criticism.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

I felt the ninety-eight-year old house lift slightly off the pilings it was built upon. God-awful scary.

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

The world's great age begins anew,The golden years return,The earth doth like a snake renewHer winter weeds outworn.

On a natural system of diet, old age would be our last and our only malady.

On a natural system of diet, old age would be our last and our only malady: the term of our existence would be protracted; we should enjoy life, and no longer preclude others from the enjoyment of it; all sensational delights would be infinitely more exquisite and perfect; the very sense of being would then be a continued pleasure, such as we now feel it in some few and favoured moments of our youth.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

I had never let myself fantasize about being with someone my own age, because it stopped being a fantasy at that point. It entered the realm of possibility, and that's where you can really get hurt.

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

You have to be in your middle thirties before you have anything worth saying.

the modern age the definition of a "racist" is a conservative who is winning an argument.

I'm an appropriate companion personality for a girl your age, young missy. We spent all night ransacking that library to see what I should be like. You got any idea what it's like watching eight million hours of Disney AVs?

age was a truly cumulative thing, bringing a degree of wisdom to life.

Today is the twenty-first of May 28367." So, over twenty-six thousand years ago . . . "How old am I, in Earth years?" "Twenty-six thousand, three hundred and fifty-five.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

WHEN I WAS 25 I THOUGHT MY DAD WAS A FOOL NOW THAT IM 30 ITS AMAZING HOW SMART HE HAS GOTTON OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS.MY SECOND FAVORITE IS A MAN PREACHING TO ANOTHER ABOUT HOW HE BELIEVES THAT FAMILY COMES FIRST AND HOW HIS FRIEND SHOULD REMEMBER WHAT HIS PARENTS DID FOR HIM BEFORE HE DISRESPECTS THEM. WELL LETS JUST SAY I UNDERSTAND.