Quotes on Age

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

He was not of an age, but for all time!

Even such is time, that takes in trust_x000D_ _x000D_ Our youth, our joys, our all we have,_x000D_ _x000D_ And pays us but with age and dust.

I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.