Age Quotes - page 5

If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred. (George Burns)
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. View quote
Muhammad Ali
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. View quote
James A. Michener
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. View quote
George MacDonald
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. View quote
Francis Bacon
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. View quote
J. B. Priestley
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. (Denis Diderot)
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. View quote
Denis Diderot
The age of the book is almost gone. View quote
George Steiner
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. View quote
William Wordsworth
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. View quote
Edward Bellamy
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. View quote
Herman Melville
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. View quote
Stendhal
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. View quote
Hayao Miyazaki
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. View quote
Salvador Dalí
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter. (Katharine Hepburn)
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Where children are, there is the golden age. View quote
Novalis
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay