Quotes About Age

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. —Franz Kafka

You were too young to fight in the last war, and I was too old. In some ways that made it worse.

old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs.

I doubt they'd kill me. And if they did—well, what does it matter? I'm old, and there could be no better death than in defence of freedom.

The elderly live on air, and I am very old—almost a hundred, or so they tell me.

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

Stuffing the low-necked gown away under the bed, her old nurse had muttered some saying about displaying wares you did not mean to sell, and when Morgase claimed she had just made it up, her reply was At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

The Way of the Leaf was a fine belief, like a dream of peace, but like the dream it could not last where there was violence. He did not know of a place without that. A dream for some other man, some other time. Some other Age perhaps.

Wishing she could scratch, Morgase also wished that the other woman had not taken her so to heart about the dress not fitting very well. Stuffing the low-necked gown away under the bed, her old nurse had muttered some saying about displaying wares you did not mean to sell, and when Morgase claimed she had just made it up, her reply was At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying .Morgase more than half-suspected that her itchy, ill-draped dress was punishment for that gown.

Some of us have more honor than others, earned by wisdom, actions and experience." Melaine held up a finger. "But it is important—vital, even—that each Wise One be willing to defend her own well. If she believes that she is right, she cannot let herself be shoved aside, even by other Wise Ones, no matter how aged or wise.

I suppose it is," Perrin said sadly, wondering why he should feel sad. The Way of the Leaf was a fine belief, like a dream of peace, but like the dream it could not last where there was violence. He did not know of a place without that. A dream for some other man, some other time. Some other Age perhaps.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

I'm an old man," Thom said suddenly, "and sometimes I imagine I see things that can't be, but luckily, I always forget them.

One might have thought that the years would also have taught her patience, but it had done the opposite. The older she grew, the less inclined she was to wait, for she knew she didn't have many years left. Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Old age was a frustration when there was so much to do.

A baffled look passed between Nynaeve and Elayne. What was his point? Everyone knew that a man did not achieve his proper wits, such as they were, until ten years later than a woman.

who was eleven years her junior.

For Apple, and many companies, mobile apps are the secret sauce of the Age of Context; mobile mapping is the most strategic of all categories.

That is no country for old men, he thought.

You can't teach an old dog new tricks

Have you ever wondered where the idea of retirement at the age of 65 came from? I'll tell you where: Otto von Bismarck, the president of Prussia, in 1889. Actually, Bismarck's government: At the time, the life expectancy of the average Prussian was about 45. Today, so many are living well into their 80s and 90s that the same promise might well bankrupt the federal government within the next generation.