Age Quotes - page 4

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. (Marshall McLuhan)
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
Marshall McLuhan
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.
Morrissey
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
Joseph Addison
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Helen Hayes
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Helen Hayes
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
Thom Gunn
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Lawrence Durrell
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. (Estelle Getty)
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Anne Bradstreet
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Mary McCarthy
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Adlai Stevenson II
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Adlai Stevenson II
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. (David Brin)
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
Walter Lippmann
Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
George Burns
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
George Burns