Age does not matter in most relationships, but in marriage, it matters a lot. If you marry a younger you have to baby sit, and if you marry an older, you have to follow orders.

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser;...

I walked past her, thinking: Is this what happens to the youth of women? Those whom we have met in the past, if suddenly we desire to see them again, have they become old? Is...

Then Treece realized a remarkable thing. He understood in a flash that everyone in the world was the same age -no one younger or older than anyone else. He could not understand it, but he...

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

Old Age homes are civilization’s dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.

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...

I don’t know yet. I might be. Age sixteen totally sucks when it comes to absolutes.

Time was a dazzling lie, a magician worth a bird in his hat. The truth, I felt certain, was that everything happened at once. How old was I? I was every age at the same...

When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their...

Being wise and being smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called wise.

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and we had failed to find happiness.

Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it’s not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a...

Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face – the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man – all present still, preserved like fossils on...

I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my age, seventy four years, permits me not to hope release. Added to this (proh dolor! [O misery!])...

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

When I turned 30, I was done with Thousand Island dressing. I have moved on to Island Number 1001.

She could be the love of my life, and I just met her. I’m 31 years old. She’s late.

maturity,” then every single woman I’ve dated has been at least twice my yage.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. Thereverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth, while others lose theirs due to trauma. As adults, we often look down...

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

A man’s life is all he has. When you’re old, it’s all you’ll ever have.

There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it as pure form, regardless of the kinds of traits traditionally regarded as imperfections....

I met with a man. His name is, “Michael Bush”, a very sophisticated sage. He said to me, “Michael, don’t associate yourself with people in your age bracket, but relate with elderly men, who had...

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,

There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and...

Age is just reality we create for ourselves.

Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional...

It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you...

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.

Time slipped and slid around him, unanchored by any fact that could be verified. Perhaps it did not matter. ‘Where does our story take place, and when?’ asked Cocteau at the start of Orphée. ‘It’s...

Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child.

Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

Due to some dim but irresistible notion of the way things are, it is simply not possible, out of order, not apprpriate to the situation at hand, if, within the circle of those who are...

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

Oh yes”, said the old woman, “but I’ve heard these so-called stoves are by no means all they are supposed to be. I never saw a stove in my day, and yet never ailed a...

I’m in great shape. I’m 30 years old, and I feel like I’m 29.

Beauty for wisdom, lust for love, youth for happiness, anger for understanding and denial for acceptance are all things I gladly trade on my journey through life. Who say’s getting old is a bad thing?

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother’s darling, and...

He was my distant cousin. Not only was he 50 miles away and 50 years away, but he was just very aloof.

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Age is only a state of mind.You are as young as you think.

Hell, I don’t want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

What is Time, O sister of similar features, that you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that secondhand overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that...

I’m thirty-four.””You don’t look thirty-four.””That’s because I’m not married.” Mae’s smile felt as if it were set in concrete. “Marriage tends to age a woman.

What can ever equal the memory of being young together?

In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.