Famous Quotes About age

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

I don't care about age very much.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.