Quotes on Age

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Age considers; youth ventures.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.