Age Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

To live in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible. We must free ourselves from life, from all possible life.

Life is swept along, next-to-nothing its span. For one swept to old age no shelters exist. Perceiving this danger in death, one should drop the world's bait and look for peace.

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.

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.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

Age considers; youth ventures.

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

My father, at the Death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up literally without education.