Age Quotes · Page 165

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Toyah Willcox

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

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life…

— Kahlil Gibran

I learned about this talent show on TV that was basically the Estonian version of 'American Idol.' So I lied about my…

— Kerli

Before there were any sort of 'recordings' there was performance. If we are devolved back to the Stone Age tomorrow, there will…

— Todd Rundgren

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when…

— George Meredith

People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get…

— David LaChapelle

My mom instilled in me at a young age how important it is to be properly dressed when you leave the house,…

— Olivia Palermo

I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through…

— Adam DeVine

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or…

— Theodore Dalrymple

The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a…

— Horace Walpole

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the…

— Lord Acton

I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic…

— Ryan Reynolds

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my…

— Petrarch

“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provided…

— Anne Lamott

For me it's much more like a little kid rebelling. The minute I was told what to do at any age, I…

— Jason Blum

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

— Gerald Brenan

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

— Ryan Murphy

I started in this sport at 12 years of age and the goals I set was to be among the best and…

— Anderson Silva

For me, turning 65 doesn't include walking away from my profession because of age; I love my job and the company I…

— Bonnie Hammer

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

— Maud Hart Lovelace

I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at…

— Keisha Castle-Hughes

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak…

— Richard M. Nixon

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

— Elton John

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

— Joseph Addison

I can't wear yellow anymore. It's too matchy-matchy with my catheter.

— Joan Rivers

I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.

— Sharon Osbourne