Age Quotes

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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

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.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

If youth knew; if age could.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children's entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.