50th Birthday Quotes – Quotations And Sayings About Age And Aging

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“The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: ‘I could’ve been Bond. Buy me a drink.’ That’s the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: ‘I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.’”
– Daniel Craig

“At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.”
– Daniel Day-Lewis

“The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.”
– Dave Barry

“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.”
– Dave Barry

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”
– David Herbert Lawrence

“Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.”
– David Herbert Lawrence

“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.”
– Doug Coupland

“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.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
– Edmund Burke

“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
– Edmund Burke

“I shall not grow conservative with age.”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.”
– Elizabeth Taylor

“My inspiration was my mom. She’s a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.”
– Emeril Lagasse

“The kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don’t want to comment on them too much. They’re at an age where I just want to let them be kids.”
– Eminem

“It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.”
– Eric Hoffer

“Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.”
– Fidel Castro

“Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.”
– Francis Bacon

“Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.”
– Francis Bacon

“In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.”
– Francis Schaeffer

“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

“We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg

“If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.”
– George Burns

“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.”
– George Orwell

“The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.”
– George Santayana

“I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.”
– George W. Bush

“We are always the same age inside.”
– Gertrude Stein

“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.”
– Gore Vidal

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