Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Mindfulness can help people of any age. That’s because we become what we think.
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness… I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it’s just like, Why? Why do that?
When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone’s life.
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.
I’m at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn’t usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
I can’t date women my own age any more – I hate going to cemeteries.
You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
I don’t want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I’m not interested.
One of the things you learn in football is that you’re only as good as your last outing. I don’t like to reflect on what we’ve done in the past. I’m not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I’d disappoint you. When it’s time, I’ll talk about the good old days. But it’s a sign of old age, reveling in the past.
It is not possible to live in this age if you don’t have a sense of many contradictory forces.
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.
Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
At a young age I thought, ‘Wow, that fiddle thing, that’s pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums… ‘ They were Indian drums. And I was saying, ‘But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.’
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.
My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
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.
The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
I want a comfortable old age and to be looked after – I have arthritis – and money is a factor.
I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.
In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
I appreciate and enjoy my age.
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
I discovered my love for dancing when I was barely 5-6 years of age. Whenever I would hear any music playing, I would automatically groove to it.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
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.
I strive for perfection, but I’m not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
I think the cruise industry has come of age. And older people my age are attracted to the cruise ship industry. And they are booming right now, and all over the world they are booming. And I think they’re for the golden oldies, and there are more and more of them around.
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.
Madam C.J. Walker was born in 1867, two years after the civil war ended. She was a daughter of a slave. She had no formal education. Both her parents died by the time she was seven. Yet, by the time she died in 1919 at age 51, she was one of the most successful businesswomen America had ever seen.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
There is no age limit to wrestling.
In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.
