Age Quotes

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.

Mitch Daniels

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Bono

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

Samantha Morton

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Mason Cooley

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

John Burroughs

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Gene Fowler

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

C.S. Lewis, Letters to an Americ

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

George Burns

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Marshall McLuhan

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Satyajit Ray

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

Tom Hanks

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Pindar

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

Paul Ryan

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte.

Plato