Quotes on Age

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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.

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

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

Children have always brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and I feel that if you can catch them at a young age you can really change a life. There are a lot of studies that show that one act of kindness to these children has a 40% chance of making that child have a completely different outcome in their life. What you hope is that you can get a kid to believe in something and to believe in themselves.

The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we realize it's intellectual capital. The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important that money. This is a major change in the way the world works. the same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people in industry as we move into the information age.

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

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.

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.