Age Quotes

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

George Herbert

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

Simon Mainwaring

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

John Henry Newman

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

Kiefer Sutherland

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

Delta Goodrem

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

J. G. Ballard

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Walter Scott

I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.

Jane Pauley

We live in an age of mediocrity.

Lauren Bacall

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

Judy Biggert

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

Samuel Johnson

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

Rod Stewart

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

Alexander McQueen

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

Neil Gaiman

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

J. B. Priestley