Quotes about Age

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest.

Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

The time for it has come, and it would indeed be strange if, in the present age, liberty, like light, should penetrate everywhere, except into that one place where freedom finds its most natural realm - in the world of ideas.

It is the lineaments of the years which form the countenance of the century.

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.

While almost everything that surrounds us in life gets old and wears out, stories, like our very souls, don't age.

A man came up to her. Expensively tailored suit. Okay, he wasn't exactly a man because he was only thirty-five. But he was trying.