Age quotes

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

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

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.