Age quotes

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Women lie about their age men lie about their income.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.