Age Quotes

We live in an age of mediocrity.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

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

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.

Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.