Quotes About Age

Facis tua computat anns. (Juvenal

Nothing is sadder than an old whore.

By age two, your child should still sleep about nine to ten hours at night, with a one- to two-hour nap after lunch—about eleven and a half hours total.

You know, at some point people reach an age at which they can no longer be considered 'promising.' I think it is about the time they turn forty.

Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

I was getting long in the leg but still short on experience.

If the past is older than the present, then the future must be younger. And we must all go backward with each passing year.

it's easy for even Nick to believe that green has a plan that will make the age of mammals seem like a minor detour.

How old does a recipe have to be in order to be traditional? What should we think when an old industrial food like salted (corned) beef or pickled herring becomes a part of "traditional" ethnic cuisine?

How, he couldn't help wondering, did you get to be this woman's age and still believe, as she apparently did, that everything meant something? She was obviously one of those people who just soldiered on, determined to believe whatever gave them comfort in the face of all contrary evidence. And maybe that wasn't so dumb. The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.

You are old, Father William—

imperial dream of a feudal age that made men enslave others.

I imagined they had been listening for me, but still had not heard me drive up, which made me realize how old they really were: Grandfather, old beyond his time, and Father, old before his time.

In case you're wondering, Old York looks absolutely nothing like New York. It looks older. Magnus Chase, master of description. You're welcome.

The older Nico got, the more juvenile Percy seemed to him, though Percy was three years older. Nico found his sense of humour equal parts endearing and annoying. He decided to concentrate on the annoying.

He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

My bus is in flames My son is older than me Please, Zeus, make it stop

The older you are, the harder it is to accept that the world might not be the way you thought it was.

Sometimes she teased me that she'd eventually catch up to me in age and be my older sibling. Looking at her now, with that determined glint in her eyes and the confidence in her voice, I could almost believe her

In this global age, the world's problems are our problems.

She was wearing a skimpy top that belonged on a teenager but it revealed her neat, hard biceps (she definitely worked out) and at least she had triceps, unlike Amelia, who had the kind of swinging underarm flesh that would have made it easy for her to glide among the treetops.

the hospital. He was the youthful partner of an older doctor

Amelia thought the word "boyfriend" sounded ridiculous when it was applied to a forty-five-year-old woman. When it was applied to herself.