In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
In every age ‘the good old days’ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
I’m a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.
I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That’s what I do. I’m like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
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.
The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.
When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It’s a cool age.
I like films and I have been watching films from a young age. So, making films happened to be a natural progression.
To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I’d done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.
I read all the time that people think I’m arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, ‘That image doesn’t fit you.’
No lie ever reaches old age.
From a young age, I took an interest in the music and my mom noticed it.
All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn’t bother me.
There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything.
When I was 12, I read about Iqbal Masih, a child slave who escaped the carpet factory where he’d been chained to a loom since the age of four. Iqbal led an anti-child labor crusade that made global headlines, including the one that first caught my attention.
I’ve loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother’s a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
I’m asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn’t say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don’t know myself at all yet.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
From the age of 31, I have lived in hotels.
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
We may think we live in a digital age. But there are some things technology will never replace.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, ‘I want to do the best I know how to do every day.’
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won’t filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?
Old age is a woman’s hell.
Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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.
When I moved to Minnesota, I found there was a thriving and determined movement, a grassroots movement, to revitalize the Ojibwe language. And I’ve never come to be a competent speaker. I have to say that right now. But even learning the amount of Ojibwe that one can at my age is a life-altering experience.
I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Well, we all age, but I’d been taking herbal supplements for a long time.
I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don’t care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn’t be driving a car if you’re over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
I think dementia is the major healthcare threat to our economy and our security. It’s a ticking time bomb – we have a whole generation of baby boomers that are going to age, many progressing to get Alzheimer’s – which disproportionately affects women and minorities.
As for whether I am a ‘new age guru’, I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.
Once you get to a certain age, if you have resentment towards people, it only affects you.
Adults are obsolete children.
A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn’t bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, and you lose interest in that stuff. It’s not serious.
Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
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.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Never guess a woman’s age. Never guess a woman’s weight. Never even talk about weight in front of a woman. And never, ever ask a woman when she’s due.
