Age Quotes

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when the dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

I have found it to be true that the older I’ve become the better my life has become.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

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)