Quotes about Age

When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter, "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95."

There are some, however, that know the prejudice of mankind in favour of modest sincerity. The vendor of the beautifying fluid sells a lotion that repels pimples, washes away freckles, smooths the skin, and plumps the flesh; and yet, with a generous abhorrence of ostentation, confesses, that it will not restore the bloom of fifteen to a lady of fifty.

For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.

Technically he is old enough to be her father; but then, technically one can be a father at twelve.

All over America highschool and college kids thinking 'Jack Duluoz is 26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking' while there I am almost 40 years old, bored and jaded

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.