Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.;Martha Graham;age 270;I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.;George W. Bush;age 271;In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.;Henry Miller;age 272;A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.;Frank Lloyd Wright;age 273;There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.;Samuel Johnson;age 274;Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.;Michel de Montaigne;age 275;I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.;Richard Dawkins;age 276;Love has no age, no limit and no death.;John Galsworthy;age 277;What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.;W. Somerset Maugham;age 278;I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.;Noel Coward;age 279;In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.;Will Durant;age 280;And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.;Elton John;age 281;My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.;Sara Blakely;age 282;What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.;Lord Byron;age 283;Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.;Washington Irving;age 284;A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.;Washington Irving;age 285;Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.;Alanis Morissette;age 286;Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.;Johnny Ball;age 287;An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.;Andre Maurois;age 288;What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.;Bono;age 289;I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.;Carl Sandburg;age 290;Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.;George Burns;age 291;Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.;F. Scott Fitzgerald;age 292;Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.;Walter Scott;age 293;Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.;Reinhold Niebuhr;age 294;The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.;William Osler;age 295;I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.;John Henrik Clarke;age 296;In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.;Herman Cain;age 297;No lie ever reaches old age.;Sophocles;age 298;I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.;Whitney Houston;age 299;This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.;Stendhal;age 300;If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.;Michel Foucault;age 301;But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.;William Wordsworth;age 302;Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.;Gore Vidal;age 303;The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.;Cindy Crawford;age 304;The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.;John W. Gardner;age 305;It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.;Virginia Woolf;age 306;Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.;W. Somerset Maugham;age 307;A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.
The quotes provided are a collection of statements about age from various individuals, including philosophers, politicians, and celebrities. The quotes range from humorous to profound, and offer insights into the human experience of aging.
The quotes highlight the complexities and contradictions of aging, from the physical and emotional changes that occur with age, to the societal and cultural expectations placed upon individuals as they grow older.
The quotes span multiple centuries and decades, reflecting the changing attitudes and perspectives towards aging throughout history.
The authors of the quotes include philosophers, politicians, and celebrities, each with their own unique perspective and experience of aging.
The quotes can be used to spark conversations and reflections on aging, and can serve as a reminder to appreciate the present and cherish the time we have.