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Age Quotes

When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with.

Granny Sheeran told me when I'm looking for a partner to fall in love with their eyes cause eyes are the only things that don't age, so if you fall in love with their eyes you'll be in love forever.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I'll still be fly.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

There's no such thing in aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

I think the music reflects the state that society's in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think poets, musicians, artists or whatever they are of the age, not only do they lead that age on but they reflect the age. And I think that's what the pop music is doing-it's mainly reflecting.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

But hereditary diseases and some other facts make me believe that the rule has a wider extension, and that, when there is no apparent reason why a peculiarity should appear at any particular age, yet it does tend to appear in the offspring at the same period at which it first appeared in the parent. I believe this rule to be of the highest importance in explaining the laws of embryology.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

It is incongruous that in this atomic age of speed we are shut in and shut out by passports.

The business man - a man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.