Age Quotes

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

W. Somerset Maugham

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

W. Somerset Maugham

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

Dennis Prager

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

J. F. Boyse

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Michael Caine

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

Vin Diesel

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Peter Gabriel

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Voltaire

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Rush Limbaugh

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.

Cesar Romero

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

Robert Morgan

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

Nadia Comaneci

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

Jane Pauley

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

Demi Moore

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

David Brinkley

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

Eric Alterman

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

Corey Feldman

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

Warren Beatty