Quotes about Age

“I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.”

“Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.”

“Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.”

“There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.”

“Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.”

“In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs.”

“At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.”

“To me, age doesn't make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be.”

“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”

“It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.”

“We live in the age of entitlement, as opposed to enlightenment.”

“I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.”

“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”

“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”

“Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.”

“At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.”

“I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going.”

“I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.”

“By Time and Age full many things are taught.”

“Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.”

“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”