Age Quotes - Page 5

Young age can be experience just once, but immaturity never leaves even we grown up??

YOU have to design your own Price tag for the world.

A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better.

. . . Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame,My youthful desires have been burnt with the years– And tonight in the chilling sunset-windA cicada, singing, weighs on my heart.

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

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

She claims she just turned thirty but it must have been a U-turn!

When asking about ones age the question asked is how old are you.I would hereby like to advocate rephrasing this as - how young are you?

Maturity comes with experience, not age.

You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Respect is reverence out of love, Fear is reverence out of hate.Choose Wisely

So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.

We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A chill, say, or a little slip on the cliff side. I feel as fragile as a dried flower. I rattle a little in the moving air, but I'm only coherent dust-a shape of what once was. My essence is going.

...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...

Discrimination is the most polite word for abuse aka denying equal opportunity by anyone in power based on age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.

When you are stressed and challenged by hardships just smile through it as frowning won’t help in changing the situation

I don't know yet. I might be. Age sixteen totally sucks when it comes to absolutes.

Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

It must be remembered that the forty hour work week until age sixty five was designed by governments and corporations and not the medical profession.

You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

The signature of our eyes, in other words, the way we look never changes even at the age of hundred!

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

I walked past her, thinking: Is this what happens to the youth of women? Those whom we have met in the past, if suddenly we desire to see them again, have they become old? Is the young woman whom we desire like a character on the stage, when, unable to secure the actress who created the part, the management is obliged to entrust it to a new star? But then it is no longer the same.

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.

One endured with humble dignity the consequences of youthful folly.

Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

I was grown up long before the grown ups were the grown ups.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

You're only young once but you can always be immature.

As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge to society is not only to provide help and care where these are needed but also to offer the opportunity to contribute and care for others [p. 8]

Yes I'm 68 but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the prime of my life. Retire? Retire to what?

Be charming at any age.

The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the same age as me. Only, I'm not sure if that was because he looked older or I looked younger. I like to think it was a healthy mixture of both.

With the development of utility electricity for the masses in the 1900's, very few people realize that a new era of sickness and disease was unleashed that are collectively called radiation sickness.

At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.

Looking fifty is great - if you're sixty.

You must remind me, little one. When I... when I lose myself - when I lose her - you must remind me that I am still searching, still waiting... that I have never forgotten her, never turned from all she taught me. I sit in this place... I sit... because a king has to sit, you see... but in my mind, in my poor mind, I am always away with her....

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Regardless of one’s age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.("Hard Candy")

LIFE - Death's Very Emissary

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

I do what he says and I close my eyes and open my mouth and the next thing I know he's got his twenty-eight-year-old tongue in my thirteen-year-old mouth and all I can think is that I don't think the hero is supposed to be doing this.

Being your age is hard enough without having to act it.