Quotes about Age

“At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.”

“The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.”

“There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.”

“I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.”

“Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.”

“Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.”

“Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.”

“Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.”

“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”

“For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”

“Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.”

“The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.”

“Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.”

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

“I don't think age matters. In cricket, if you have the skill, you can go on playing.”

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

“The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.”

“At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.”

“I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.”

“A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.”

“I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.”