Age Quotes

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.

I am thirty-three – the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won’t get run over.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. (Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol)

Most of us don’t have a second chance to correct the mistakes of our youth. I do, and I am.

Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced […]

Women are most fascinating between the age of thirty-five and forty after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labor to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.