Age Quotes · Page 198

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

— Jacques Barzun

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

— I. L. Peretz

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Nobody really changes after a certain age. I truly believe that, that people don't change.

— Janelle James

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not…

— Giacomo Leopardi

All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

— Ovid

From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.

— Lionel Messi

A favorite film? The first 'Ice Age' and the first 'Despicable Me.' They're the films that have introduced me to characters that…

— Chris Meledandri

There is a congratulatory culture in the Gulf. From birth onwards, there is a culture of giving people trophies as markers of…

— Ayshay

We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But...it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over…

— John Grant Fuller

I wasn’t sure anymore what made a good marriage. There had to be love, of course, but there were so many different…

— Janet Evanovich

I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're…

— El-P

I had kids at age 47, and very late in life, and I'd been doing it for 30 straight years, writing songs,…

— Bob Seger

Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks…

— Marc Prensky

Mosca said nothing. The word ‘damsel’ rankled with her. She suddenly thought of the clawed girl from the night before, jumping the…

— Frances Hardinge

Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often…

— F. Sionil Jose

I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going…

— Josh Cooke

I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that…

— Anonymous

You know what I always say to people who say, "Oh, I wish I were 20 years younger"? I say, "Enjoy your…

— Fredric Brandt

I'm pedantic about lip balm. I've been chomping through Lip Smackers since age 11. So the lip balm called Lips! is a…

— Zoe Foster Blake

To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that…

— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

When you're looking for stories or movies usually the great stories are about people in their 30s or 40s because they've lived…

— Jonah Hill

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.

— Scott Adams

Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age.

— Peter Goldman

The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin…

— Thomas Hood

Michael Irvin, he's definitely a legend, but I don't know if some of the guys my age and younger really know about…

— Amari Cooper

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.

— Ted Godwin

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

— Mario Puzo

I think that as actors age, the work becomes more organic to them.

— Ray Romano

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

— Harold Coffin

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

— Winston Churchill

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.

— Jose Mourinho

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the…

— Willem Dafoe

I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.

— Prince Philip

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

— Robert Southey

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

— John McPhee