Age Quotes · Page 130

I love how most people in 'Sixteen Candles' don't actually look their age. It adds to the movie's funky and low-budget vibe.

— Phoebe Robinson

Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.

— Gore Vidal

Middle age is when you say, 'I did that twenty years ago' and twenty years doesn't cover it.

— L Vincent Majestic

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

— Voltaire

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

— Samuel Johnson

A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

— William Cowper

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

— Anthony de Mello

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound…

— Lisa See

There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some…

— Ruby Dee

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice -…

— Alexander Pope

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more…

— Andre Breton

A player's character is a crucial factor I look into before committing to signing them. They also need to show a willingness…

— Brendan Rodgers

When you love someone unconditionally, you go to war for them, and they do that for each other. They know they can…

— Michael K. Williams

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended…

— Edmund Burke

I've got no problems with my age. I rejoice in the knowledge I have accrued and savor the greatest moments, because I…

— Mariska Hargitay

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…

— Louis Kronenberger

And everyone is always saying that marriage is really hard and takes a lot of work. But the thing is, when you…

— Erin McCarthy

Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless,…

— Stella Chess

Prasadam's a good little hook in this age of commercialism. When people want something extra, or they need to have something special,…

— George Harrison

My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship…

— Sylvia Pankhurst

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because…

— Nora Ephron

Pretty much I want to be Steve Wozniak, who I decided I was at a young age and not change. I want…

— Steve Wozniak

Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people,…

— Bob Proctor

I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am…

— Ellen Barkin

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

— Joseph Plaskett

At Everton, we have always tried to do good deals and have always tried to buy at the right age and the…

— David Moyes

All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

— Leopold von Ranke

My mother, Barbara, was a dancer from the age of 14 to 19. She toured with the comedian Max Wall in a…

— Toyah Willcox

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

— Tom Stoppard

Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

— William Shakespeare

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I'm so thankful that I got to travel from a relatively young age.

— Abigail Spencer

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

— William Shakespeare

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

— Lillie Langtry

As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“As age changes with each moment, we become that little bit more of a distant memory to the person we are currently.”

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

— Auguste Rodin

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

— John Wesley

I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.

— Ryan Murphy

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

— Gerald Brenan