Quotes About Perspective

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

nobody ever intends to be old.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.