Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.
If you play 'Fortnite' and you're over the age of 13 years old, you've got a psychological problem. There's something wrong with you.
Adults are obsolete children.
One of the regrettable things in my life is that my dad was not around to see my stardom, to see me wrestle or to see what I achieved by the dream I had at an early age, influenced by where he would like to go.
When I began running at the age of 10, I didn't have the diet athletes need. It was just rice and vegetables. Every day.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
I'm living proof that there's no age limit to rapping.
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
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.
If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
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.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
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.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.
You should never reveal your true age.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.