Quotes about Age

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman, as at my age a woman is an old maid but a man is not an old bachelor until he's fifty, and even then there's still hope for the ladies, as Mary Whitney used to say.

Torture is like dancing: I'm too old for it. Let the younger ones practice their bravery.

He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old crone.

He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman

A rebuke, a palpable rebuke! How dare she? He was already middle-aged when she was born! He could have been her father! He could have been her child molester!

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Anyone who's so petty and pedantic at the age of fifty-four was born that way and is never going to change.

Most criticism shared in the internet age is useless, or worse, harmful. It's useless because it often personalizes the criticism to be about the creator, not the work. And it's useless because most critics are unskilled and ungenerous.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

I fairly often have thought how lucky I was. I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference was the most fantastic thing for me to have in my life.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.