age quotes

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

I don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Dissents speak to a future age.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I am not young enough to know everything.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.