Quotes about Age

THOSE who start with the pagan philosophy of sex must face life as a descent. Associated with a growing old, there is a loss of physical energy and the horrible perspective of death. The Christian philosophy of love, on the contrary, implies an ascension. The body may grow older, but the Spirit grows younger, and love often becomes more intense.

The Church knows too that to marry the present age and its spirit is to become a widow in the next.

The Scriptures are not merely a record of historical events that have passed. They constitute for every age a revelation of God's mind and will to each individual.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman, as at my age a woman is an old maid but a man is not an old bachelor until he's fifty, and even then there's still hope for the ladies, as Mary Whitney used to say.

Torture is like dancing: I'm too old for it. Let the younger ones practice their bravery.

He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old crone.

He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman

A rebuke, a palpable rebuke! How dare she? He was already middle-aged when she was born! He could have been her father! He could have been her child molester!

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Anyone who's so petty and pedantic at the age of fifty-four was born that way and is never going to change.