257 Age Quotes

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

We are always the same age inside.

As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

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

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.

Age is a sicknesse, and Youth is an ambush.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

In your teens and your 20s, you're immortal, you're untouchable. It's only later that you begin to realize you are mortal. (2004)

Em geral, nos outros, os Portugueses, so comecamos a ser idiotas - quando chegamos a idade da razao. Em pequenos temos todos uma pontinha de genio.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

I'm an old man at fifty-four, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

'But girls often marry when they are too young,' exclaimed Mary-Marie quickly; 'so, if you don't object to my age - '

'(I got introduced to) the late and great Mani Madhava Cakyar's King Udayana in Svapnavasavadatta. In what may have been among his last performances on the public stage I was fortunate to see Sri Cakyar, who at an advanced age, literally threw away his walking stick as he entered the stage to become a sprightly royal lover pining away for his beloved Vasavadatta. At his home in Likkadi he demonstrated the nava rasas... Sri Cakyar vividly illustrated to me that kutiyattam acting has the power to transform even the oldest person into the character he portrays' - Prof. Farley P. Richmond (Expert on Indian theatre), Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Georgia.[13]

'for 90 years' - On asking how much years he had studied Kutiyattam. He was 90 years then.

How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.

Oh sir! I must not tell my age. They say women and music should never be dated.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

Cuando me dicen que soy demasiado viejo para hacer una cosa, procuro hacerla enseguida.

Youth flies away and never comes back.

I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to 'Hamlet' on the grounds that I knew who won.

Well, the old theory was 'marry a older man because they're more mature'. But the new theory is 'men don't mature - marry a young one'.

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

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, 'A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!'

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

How often already you've had to be told, Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold. Dread fifty above more than fifty below. I have to be gone for a season or so.

The old dog barks backward without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.

If this uncertain age in which we dwell Were really as dark as I hear sages tell, And I convinced that they were really sages, I should not curse myself with it to hell.

'Twas Age imposed on poems Their gather-roses burden To warn against the danger That overtaken lovers From being overflooded With happiness should have it And yet not know they have it.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

I'm now a committed silver surfer.

Perhaps when all the world is bare And cruel winter holds the land, The Love that finds no place to hide Will run and catch my hand. I shall not care to have him then, I shall be bitter and a-cold - It grows too late for frolicking When all the world is old. Then little hiding Love, come forth, Come forth before the autumn goes, And let us seek thro' ruined paths The garden's last red rose.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature-subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today...The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

I see that luck resembles women: it prefers a young king than an old emperor.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable. The laws, the aphorisms, the generalizations, the universal truths, the parables and the old saws - all of the observations about life which can be communicated handily in ready, verbal packages - are as well known to a man at twenty who has been attentive as to a man at fifty. He has been told them all, he has read them all, and he has probably repeated them all before he graduates from college; but he has not lived them all. What he knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty boils down to something like this: The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions - a knowledge not gained by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love - the human experiences and emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men; and perhaps, too, a little faith, and a little reverence for things you cannot see.

Jack and Mary and Gracie and I were going to dinner one night and Gracie asked Mary, 'Is Jack really thirty-nine?' And Mary said, 'Ridiculous.' Then she asked, 'And how is his sex life?' and Mary said, 'Ridiculous!' ~ George Burns

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold:

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for a stranger was his own. ~ Will and Ariel Durant

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