Age Quotes

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

Ed Koch

One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her you cooked it, you take it out.

Rodney Dangerfield

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

Michael Haneke

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Bob Hope

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Ernest Hemingway

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Eric Hoffer

Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin Pierce Adams, Nods and

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

Steve Irwin

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

I. F. Stone

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Brigitte Bardot

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Colleen McCullough

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

Patrick J. Kennedy

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

John F. Kennedy

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

Shirley MacLaine

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

Jason Kidd

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.

Minnie Driver