Age Quotes - Page 3

In youth the days are short and the years are long in old age the years are short and the days long.

Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age.

If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing. Who in his sense would not keep, if he could, that tireless curiosity, that intensity of imagination, that facility of suspending disbelief, that unspoiled appetite, that readiness to wonder, to pity, and to admire?

Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.)

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you noticed every daisy on the path to the gallows.

I was just thinking when I was a young girl I never knew what every young girl was supposed to know. And now I am going to be an old lady I don't know what every old lady is supposed to know.

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.

What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings — younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older...

In your thirties something strange starts to happen. It’s a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I’m — you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you’re not. You’re thirty-five. And then you’re bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it’s decades before you admit it.

we’re too old to be young.

He may be old now, but he is still a hero in their eyes

If youth was sold in a bottle of hair dye, we would all get in line.

Women do not lie about their age. In fact, no woman ever has, its just that memory is the first thing to go.

Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said "She'll never admit it but I believe it is Mama." When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

No matter how much struggle you face in your journey towards success, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.

A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.

It doesn't matter how old you are," Lila said. "What matters is how you live.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.

Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.

I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right time.

When I think of my dad as a little boy I tend to think of him in black and white.

I wouldn't say someone is old just because his social security is in Roman numerals or because Mozart played at his senior prom.

Old foxes want no tutors.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

To be successful in life , Plan, Implement, Revise, Update, and Build on Change.

Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed.

There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.

Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.

Eustasia Johannsen was ready. Anyone could see that. Everything about her ancient self gave evidence to it: Her skin, wrinkled and transparent... But mainly, it was her eyes. They were drawn into her face as if her memories occupied more of her sight than what was actually in front of her.

Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

...the Master and the boy followed each other as if drawn along the wires of some mechanism, until soon it could no longer be discerned which was coming and which going, which following and which leading, the old or the young man. Now it seemed to be the young man who showed honour and obedience to the old man, to authority and dignity; now again it was apparently the old man who was required to follow, serve, worship the figure of youth, of beginning, of mirth. And as he watched this at once senseless and significant dream circle, the dreamer felt alternately identical with the old man and the boy, now revering and now revered, now leading, now obeying; and in the course of these pendulum shifts there came a moment in which he was both, was simultaneously Master and small pupil; or rather he stood above both, was the instigator, conceiver, operator, and onlooker of the cycle, this futile spinning race between age and youth.

Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a little condescension; with low expectation of the other’s rationality; with the knowledge that the other will find what they say hard to understand, that it will go beyond them (not so much over the head as between the legs); and with the feeling that they must arrive with something the other will like, something suitable.

THE Biggest enemy of Truth is known as Facts in our Society

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.

Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. Love means nothing in tennis,But it's everything in life

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.

Result of HARDWORK Is Neither Friends Nor Enemy,To the AGE Of the ACHIEVER!

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.

Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I can live in the moment; which is good; why yield a moment to regret or envy or worry? Why indeed? (24 December 1940)

Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.

I could no longer remember the way my mother's eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so red around the edges? Surely, those pockets of gray beneath her lower lashes were new. She still wasn't sleeping well, but perhaps what I was seeing was just age, a gradual shift that I'd failed to register. I sometimes felt the urge to study recent photographs of her in order to locate the exact point in time when she had come to look so weary.

The only time I ever believed that I knew all there was to know about beekeeping was the first year I was keeping them. Every year since I’ve known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than I do.

When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people.

The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.

And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The most essential requirement for leaders is neither age nor gender. It is neither certificates nor positions. It is the character that reveals trust and exemplary life.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

Never put an age limit on your dreams.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

I have learned little from the years that fly but I have wrung the colour from the years.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.