Age quotes

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

At my age flowers scare me.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.