1,058 Quotes Regarding Age


As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Helen Keller

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
William Shakespeare

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
Muhammad Ali

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy

Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
Marilyn Monroe

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.
Eminem

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato