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Quotations on Age 119 Quotes Found Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Judges don't age; time decorates them. Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors. Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age. To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage. Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home. I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time. At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself. Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics. I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life. And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him. Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it. Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine. I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open. Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time. I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right! On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life. Women lie about their age; men lie about their income. It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger. Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office. Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.
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