Age Quotes

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

When I’m 100 I’ll still be doing pin-ups

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.