Top 997 Age Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.

My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully.

There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous - to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.

When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs.

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

Live your life and forget your age.

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.

I'm a fine wine: I just get better with age. Actually, I'm like the Benjamin Button of the Combine. The older I get, the younger I look and feel.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

I'm at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

Youth is wasted on the young.

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It's been passed on - it always will be - and if anybody ever wants it in any age, it's always there.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

Difficult choices, unlike red wine, rarely improve with age.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

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

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.