Age quotes

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.