Quotes about Age

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

“I got my first piercing at the age of 13, my first tattoo at the age of 15.”

“We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.”

“To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.”

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

“I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.”

“The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.”

“You look more like a legend when you accomplish a lot at a young age.”

“We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.”

“Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.”

“Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.”

“The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.”

“The 21st century is dominated by networks because the introduction of the information age, we can suddenly create, free flow these globally distributed, organic, shaped networks of individuals.”

“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”

“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.”

“No man is ever old enough to know better.”

“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”

“Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”

“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”

“Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.”

“Minds ripen at very different ages.”