Quotes about Age
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Victor Hugo
I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin.
- Desmond Tutu
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
- Joseph Addison
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
- Lucille Ball
The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.
- Mary Baker Eddy
It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken.
- Robert Frost
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of sh.. that it demanded.
- Ernest Hemingway
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
- Dale Carnegie
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
- Charles Spurgeon
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Live your life and forget your age.
- Norman Vincent Peale