Age quotes

Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

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

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

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