Age Quotes

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.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.

In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.