Quotes about Age

Old men make war, young men fight and die

Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

By the time a man is rich enough to sleep late he's too old to enjoy it.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.