Quotes about Age

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.”

“Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!”

“The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”

“When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.”

“Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.”

“I don't care about age very much.”

“Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.”

“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”

“I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.”

“I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.”

“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”

“In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.”

“All diseases run into one, old age.”

“You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?”

“Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.”

“It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.”

“People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.”

“Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.”

“I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.”

“Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.”