Quotes about Age
You never look old. -The body is that which grows old. The spirit is neither older, nor much wiser.
- Ernest Hemingway
I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as on seventy years; granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age.
- Ernest Hemingway
We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.
- Mother Angelica
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
- Ayn Rand
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
- Rowan Williams
The biblical basis is the numerous biblical texts which describe prophecy as a spiritual gift that should characterize God's people in the age of the New Covenant.
- Sam Storms
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
- Albert Einstein
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
- Oscar Wilde
Teiresias: Yes well, what is it they say, you're as young as you feel? Kadmos: We must get to the mountain. Should we call a cab? Teiresias: That doesn't sound very Dionysian. Kadmos: Good point. Let's walk.
- Euripides
A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.
- F Scott Fitzgerald