Quotes about Age

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.

A guy like Ric Flair at 49 could go out and do his character. A guy 49 going out and doing Goldberg again - I don't know what the odds are.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is.

I can have a career right into my old age, creating music in some way. It seems like a lovely way to go through life.

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

The more abstract, the more ideal an art is, the more it reveals to us the temper of its age. If we wish to understand a nation by means of its art, let us look at its architecture or its music.

But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in this nineteenth century of ours. Of course he does. I, of all men, am not going to deny that. But remember that there has never been an artistic age, or an artistic people since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been, and will always be, an exquisite exception.

We don't grow older we grow riper.