Top 1200 Wise Age Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

How old are you? If your first reflex is to reply with your chronological age, the number on your birth certificate, you are only one-third correct. There are actually two additional, and more important, indicators of age. And the exciting news is that it is within your power to adjust both of these other "age indicators" and truly grow younger and live longer.

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.

I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.

Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age.

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.

I grew up in front of the camera from an early age. It distorts your perception of who you are. Having a lot of attention at a young age is not healthy.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

There's nothing about Lynn Good at age 30 or age 35 that would have said, 'I am setting my sights on being a CEO.'

The reason for my age being messed up in the records is that when I first appeared for the under-14 trials, I myself really did not know my exact age.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

I want to show guys that when they get up in age, if you love the game and you go out and work hard, it shouldn't matter what age you are.

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

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.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour...I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Just as I am working hard to adjust to a new level, someone comes along and asks me to move up again. I'm not complaining about it; I just get on with trying to make sure I don't let anyone down. Training with England is just a different gravy again. Movement-wise, finishing-wise, you can learn such a lot from watching the very best in action.

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else

From the age of five, I was organizing everybody's everything. If I didn't like the way it looked, I'd rearrange it. From a very early age, I saw life from my point of view.

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

I was probably on a horse before the age of three. From a very young age, I could ride on my own, work, trot, you name it.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

I never really get to play a character who's my own age. I kind of look a little bit younger for my age.

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in the age of Rommel, when defense was considered an honorable thing.

I've seen everything at a very young age... I am a strong, opinionated person who really belongs to this modern day and age.

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

I was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic at the age of 22.

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.