Top Age Quotes

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Age Definition

(n.) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

(n.) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?

(n.) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.

(n.) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.

(n.) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age.

(n.) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion.

(n.) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles.

(n.) A great period in the history of the Earth.

(n.) A century; the period of one hundred years.

(n.) The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation.

(n.) A long time.

(v. i.) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.

(v. t.) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.

I have outlived a few of the kids that I grew up with in Knowsley Village, Liverpool, UK. Two dropped dead at eighteen years of age from heart attacks! They lived across the road from each other and p...

With the development of utility electricity for the masses in the 1900's, very few people realize that a new era of sickness and disease was unleashed that are collectively called radiation sickness.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Generally it appears the case that, when faced with all life's problems, the baby, he wants to cry about everything, the child wants to question everything, the teenager wants to rebel against everyth...

If you keep an active life, you stay young.

I find it funny when people try to brag about being younger than me...like having lived less is an accomplishment. Makes me want to pat them on the head, lol. I'm comfortable with who I am.

We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred...

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal i...

There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically attainable. They will tell you where you can live, and what you can wear and drive, w...

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.