Age Quotes · Page 107

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

— Anonymous

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

— Francis Bacon

With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it.

— Amber Valletta

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

— Pablo Picasso

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

— Erica Jong

Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical…

— Rory Bremner

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

— George Saunders

It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only…

— Maria Edgeworth

I think my writing process changes as I gain more life experience... It has taken me many years to be able to…

— Kathleen Winter

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So,…

— Charles Spurgeon

In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels,…

— Walter Isaacson

You have to understand the process of healing in the Age of Aquarius. What will give the healing is the flow of…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

But from my very first gig I've always been pretty filthy, but that's why we have an age restriction. And I make…

— Sarah Millican

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying…

— Debra Winger

In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I don't see a lot of guys that have done that [winning three times before age 24], besides Tiger Woods, of course,…

— Patrick Reed

One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen,…

— Anita Loos

By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago; Yet still the silver corpse must spin And with another's…

— Julian Huxley

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…

— Peter Singer

She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only…

— Toni Morrison

Mann was less interested, I think, in constructing any kind of "portrait of an age" than he was in delineating an individual…

— Philip Kitcher

“The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing…

— Sarah Ash

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter…

— Dorothy Dix

I'm not going to be told that I shouldn't be doing anything, or behaving in any particular way at any age of…

— Deborah Meaden

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

— Walter Scott

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Age may only be a number, but the bigger it gets, the longer you get to hang around.

— Linda Poindexter

Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

Living by yourself, technically by yourself, at the age of 16 is not easy to do.

— Anthony Bennett

The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.

— Billy Bishop

When I hit 40, I ballooned. I thought it might have been age, abuse, but it wasn't, it was a thyroid condition.

— Shaun Ryder

I remember at a very early age ringing up record labels I found in the Yellow Pages, and asking them for a…

— Ashley Walters

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

— Andrew Wyeth

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

— Jaron Lanier

I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

— Peter D. Kramer

I don't think people should have an age. It's not really important. What's important is where you go and how you go.

— Bebe Buell

Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the…

— Martin Amis

It is not possible to make a certain evaluation...that cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'.

— Hardin B. Jones