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

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“I must confess, I was born at a very early age.”
– Groucho Marx

“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”
– H. L. Mencken

“You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.”
– Haruki Murakami

“I can’t look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can’t. I’d rather age.”
– Heidi Klum

“I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.”
– Henry Louis Gates

“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

“I’m 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I’d also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people – I don’t want to judge it or anything – but it’s not for me. It would destroy my creativity.”
– Henry Rollins

“For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.”
– J. B. Priestley

“There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.”
– J. B. Priestley

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
– J. K. Rowling

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
– Jeanne Moreau

“I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.”
– Jewel Kilcher

“I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.”
– Jimmy Buffett

“Age merely shows what children we remain.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”
– John Galsworthy

“I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14… I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.”
– John Irving

“You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.”
– John Mayer

“No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.”
– John Ruskin

“Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.”
– John Ruskin

“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

“Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.”
– Joseph Addison

“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.”
– Joseph Addison

“It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.”
– Joseph Addison

“I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That’s not normal, even for my age.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master’s master, the genius of the age.”
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.”
– Katharine Hepburn

“I’m asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn’t say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don’t know myself at all yet.”
– Kristen Stewart

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