Age Quotes

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Billy Joel

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Eddie Murphy

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

J. B. Priestley

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

Junior Seau

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Charlotte Bronte

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

Courteney Cox

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Hesiod

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Lindsay Lohan

Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

Albert Einstein

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

Sienna Miller

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Harold Coffin

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

;now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of feeling, he said. No, that is true, said Sally. She felt more deeply, more passionately, every year. It increased, he said, alas, perhaps, but one should be glad of it-- it went on increasing in his experience.

Virginia Woolf

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

Florence Welch

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Barbara de Angelis

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Charles Dickens

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron