Quotes about Age

“Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.”

“I think at the age I'm at, it's really hard for a film career, and I'm at a point in my life where I thought it would be a good idea to be a part of a good show and to be able to finish school.”

“Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.”

“There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical thought in the reading brain because it implies choice.”

“The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.”

“I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than her age.”

“I believe that, as an athlete, how you got to the age of 42 makes a big difference. I have learned about my body; I haven't gone off only talent until I was 42.”

“Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.”

“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”

“What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore.”

“Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I'm still playing now.”

“Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.”

“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”

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

“Old age is just a record of one's whole life.”

“The second child of a small farmer with six children, I come from a village in Bihar on the border of Nepal called Belwa. I was there till the age of 17 and studied in a Hindi-speaking boarding school run by Catholics in a nearby district town.”

“Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.”

“There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”

“At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin.”

“The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.”