Quotes About Age

How much more elder art thou than thy looks!

Let still the woman takeAn elder than herself, so wears she to him,So sways she level in her husband's heart:For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,Than women's are.

Every part about you blasted with antiquity.

The choice and master spirits of this age.

I rarely ask people about their health, because at my age people will be happy to tell you.

In this, the eightieth year of my life, I should be settling down, taking it easy, resting on laurels. Forget it.

There are friends one makes at a youthful age in whom one simply rejoices, for whom one possesses a love and loyalty mysteriously lacking in the friendships made in after-years, no matter how genuine.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will:

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

I recently turned 60 years old. Practically a third of my life is over.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

Out in the open air, he seemed somehow older.

On ne retombe pas en enfance, on n'en sort jamais. Vieux, moi? Qu'est-ce qu'un vieillard sinon un enfant qui a pris de l'âge ou du vendre ?...

A quatre-vingts ans, notre avenir est derrière. Devant, il n'y a que le passé.

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine." –Joan Collins

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.