Top 997 Age Quotes & Sayings

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

You can learn at any age and at any moment in your life.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Eschatological fears are an ancient human concern. The Romans expected the world to end in 634 B.C. owing to a prophecy involving twelve eagles, while the early Christians anticipated the Final Judgment in their own lifetimes. Pope Sylvester II thought A.D. 1000 would be the last year, a view updated for the modern age by the Millennium bug.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

People say that when you get to a certain age that you start to mellow. I have no idea what these people are talking about.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.

I was born in London but brought up in Wales from the age of two.

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial influence.

I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.

Lee May's about the same age as me; he's got about the same stats. So how come he's making about one-eighty, two hundred thousand, and I'm the best damn paid player in the game? I'll tell you why: Because I put the meat in the seats!

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

At a young age, I realized that getting letters is exciting.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.