The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.

The danger of our age is that people think they have everything figured out.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

I plan to live to be 120!

Since I was 13 or 14, I’ve always felt older than I actually am.

As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body”. Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, “I am so proud of my body.” So I make sure to say it to Mia, because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.

I went to college for four years.

I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me – that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Age is just a number. It’s never too late to chase your dreams and live your best life.

Back in the ’60s, there was a car sticker that read, ‘Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,’ but I ate like a horse.

The 40s onwards are when we can really begin to enjoy ourselves. For many women, this is when everything comes together, and they look better than ever. The great thing about getting older is you don’t have to do/wear/say anything you don’t want to. It wasn’t until my very late 30s that I stopped worrying about what other people thought.

Ageing doesn’t mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn’t mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.

At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.

Being young isn’t about age, it’s about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who’s boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who’s youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit

When you are part of a community for 14 years, it inevitably shapes you. I will always have a part of Ferrari beside me; a part of my heart will always be red.

In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna’s Immaculate Collection every day.

People say my content’s mature, I don’t think it’s mature at all. I’m just a normal 20 year old. I’m opinionated.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

Years later, when I asked my father, I said ‘Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?’ he said, son, you plum wore me out.

A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos.

Slash and I hadn’t talked in 19 years, and when we did talk, I was like, ‘You wrote a lot of stuff that didn’t even happen. It’s not real.’

When I was 10 years old, I loved – I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Even at the age of 36, I’m always looking at ways to improve.

The arts are a reflection of the world we live in.

At 14, I discovered girls. At that time, dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I discover that you dance joy. You dance love. You dance dreams.

When you’re 25, it’s a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

I started out as a guitarist in the early ’80s.

I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.

The Stone Age didn’t end because the World ran out of stones.

I spent the ’90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

I’m 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that’s it. I don’t think I’ll ever be hip again!

When I was 4, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.

I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.

Whether I’m 40, 50 or 60, I’m going to be as physically strong as I am able.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

I’m a man, I’m 40!

Men of unlimited means live lives of unbridled lust, and then, in their old age, they are helpless victims of their own impulses.

That was one of the advantages of his age, that he could be sure of his mastery in every moment.

The greatest writers of this age… are aware of the mystery of our existence.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

Lately, my sexual fantasies revolved around once again having a landlord. Looks, age, and hygiene didn’t matter, as long as he had a tool belt and said, Don’t worry, I’ll fix it.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues

Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this revolutionary age, and our country will have its full share in that as in other merits.

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they’ve made and why they’ve made them, to be able to acknowledge when they’ve made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

It’s possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don’t appreciate how tough your elders had it. It’s true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

One line I’d draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn’t. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they’ll get penalized with lower benefits.

Age is never so old as would measure it.

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.

You’re never too young for something you really want to do, never too young to go after your passion. The age doesn’t matter at all. If it’s something you want to do, it depends on your will

Since the age of three I have refused God nothing

In football, you have to grow up quickly, and you’re generally more mature than other people your age.

When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.

I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people’s understanding can expand more easily.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look

I’m nearly 50. I’m past being photographed falling out of bars.

In an age of artificial intelligence, too many of our schools and colleges are producing artificial stupidity

Writing is a form of resistance against oblivion

I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I’m pushing 40, I guess I look closer to… 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don’t have one of those.

Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth

I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I’m not proud of it. But I was always against society

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.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

We all have souls of different ages.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.”

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.

This is not yet a scientific age.

An Idle youth, a needy Age.

If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than anything else he can do, and that it would be silly if he surrendered any decent opportunity of exercising his one talent in order to do undistinguished work in other fields. Such a sacrifice could be justified only by economic necessity of age.

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die.

Act your age, not your shoe size.

Being seventy is not a sin.

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age.

Youth has no age.

Now I’m more behaved, I think it’s age, you get older, more responsible, more quiet. But if I would want to dye my hair, for example red or blue, be sure that I’ll dye it.

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite; Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage; But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.

As sooth is said, age hath great advantage, / In eld is both wisdom and experience.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Live your life and forget your age.

I went hard for the chips ’cause the odds were against us.

Obviously, from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I’ve been holdin’ my own since that age

My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d’etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age ‘proper living’ means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea

In the playoffs, nobody cares about how old you are or what you’ve been through.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do

Age is whatever you think it is.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different

Distrust unsolicited advice

And even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old

Thirty is a very good age for an actor: you can play both young and old men.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

You know you’re an adult when you get excited about a new sponge

To seek forgiveness in old age is good but to seek it when young is better.

Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.