Quotation Explorer - 'Age'

A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. - Washington Irving
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind. - Don Marquis
I’ve always wondered why women are expected to deny their true age. Why? To be a woman of 50 and up is a badge of triumph—a hard-earned certificate that says you survived the shallowness, the violence, the meanness, and the caprice of a male-dominated society without losing your mind! - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. - Karl von Bonstetten
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. - Matthew Arnold
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
.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now. - Anna Quindlen
Arabs used to tell a poem to their children: O young man if you do not achieve greatness by the age of 20 you will never achieve greatness in your entire life. All those below 20 years of age should think about this. - Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed
I was born at a very young age - Kell Jeffery Schwers
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth... - Sinclair Lewis
Zeitgeist spirit of the age. No such thing. Imposition by hierarchy. People rebel & are marginalised; or follow, chained. - Anthony North
What to say if I was wise and on your age I will take the chances and take Reddit Collection #1 and #2... But if you are hungry... go and buy one sandwich! - Deyth Banger
Currently, the average age of exposure to hardcore pornography is 9 years old. None of this can be good for anyone... except the sex industry. - Guy Noland
Being socialized female and spending my life "othered" by this world gives me a unique perspective. In the past, this has felt like shit. In the present, it feels pretty good. In the future I hope somebody loves me enough to watch me age ungracefully. - Harvey Katz
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.
age is a state of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter. - Satchel Paige
My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers. - Soraya Diase Coffelt
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. - George Sand
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. - Plato
In this day and age, there is a special mandate for every one of us to be in-charge of our lives by sitting at the driver's seat of our lives. Rule your world! - Ifeanyi C.O. Obiakor
As age changes with each moment, we become that little bit more of a distant memory to the person we are currently. - Tammy-Louise Wilkins
Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions and some negative contributions. It's necessary to have enough to make positive contributions to overcome the problems of each age. - Jonas Salk
Education is the best provision for old age. - Aristotle
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 know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. - George Orwell
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless. - Milan Kundera
our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness - Samuel Johnson
I am older than your age and younger than your body. - Santosh Kalwar
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. - Katharine Hepburn
The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. - J.K. Rowling
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. - Salvador Dalí
When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year.I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety. - Steven Wright
It is the greatest mercy that humankind cannot connect up all its diverse bits of information, but a day is coming when we will and the question is whether we will embrace that light, or run from it into the sheltering shadows of a new dark age.
The work trains the youth. I have a start of old age ... (Le travail forme la jeunesse. - J'ai un début de vieillesse ...) - Charles de Leusse
In this age, you must be relentlessly remarkable to stay relevant, if not you will be relegated. - Bernard Kelvin Clive
The music of rebellion makes you want to rageBut it's made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age - Porcupine Tree
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. - Oscar Wilde
It must be remembered that the forty hour work week until age sixty five was designed by governments and corporations and not the medical profession. - Steven Magee
Age is a bunch of bullshit, the wise parts, the inner soul, and the inner maturity is what we should really be focused on. - Mekiah Johnson
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. - Anonymous
The saddest thing about old age is our idea of it. - Marty Rubin
Once who is beautiful at the age of five, will also be beautiful at the age of 25 and 75. Its only the attraction that fades out with time, charm and beauty always remain there. - Megh Bhatnagar
Age defying facial treatment cream which helps to remove fine line and wrinkles from your faceMany more benefits will show on your face soon with the usage of this Benevita wrinkle cream. - ACN Wealth Mentoring
The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age - Barbara Leaming
Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or with joy, sing about death or love, for nothing will endure! Morality can only make life a long series of missed opportunities. - Emil Cioran
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H. L. Mencken
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. - George Burns
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. - Charles-Victor De Bonstettin
in our age there is no such thing as " keeping out of politics " all issues are political issues , and politics itself is a mass of lies , evasions , folly , hatred and . - George Orwell
Those of little understanding say the world will soon end. It is the current age that is coming to an end. The end of this age is the beginning of the next. - Compton Gage
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. - Groucho Marx
The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. - Maria Edgeworth
There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does. - Douglas Coupland
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us. - W. Somerset Maugham
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives. - Maurice Chevalier
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government." [Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 323, 341 (1966) (dissenting)] - William O. Douglas
Love isn’t about social status or age; it’s about two people connecting and appreciating each other with no hidden motive. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Age is a state of mind. - Ken Norton
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. - Ray Bradbury
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. - Isaac D'Israeli
I am light. I am not my age, I am not my race; my soul inside is all light. I am light. - India Arie
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. - Hayao Miyazaki
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. - Adam Smith
We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age. - Barack Obama
Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous. - Nicole Kidman
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. - Ronald Reagan
Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Satchel Paige
Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird. - Don DeLillo
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning. - Anton Chekhov
Old age ain't no place for sissies. - Bette Davis
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. - Robert Byrne
Gray hairs signify old age, not wisdom.Muscles signify strength, not health.Laughter signifies amusement, not joy.Weeping signifies pain, not weakness.Smiling signifies courteousness, not love. - Matshona Dhliwayo
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six. - John W. Gardner
I do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. - George Orwell
Age is a cruel monster and time is no friend - Oluseyi Akinbami
work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age 66. Thomson, then 80 years old, was once his teacher.} J.J. Thomson - His
Age is just reality we create for ourselves. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend. - Marcel Achard
When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age, and experience disappear completely, and soon you’re one-on-one with the topic at hand. - Carmelo S. "Nino" Amarena
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone. - Oscar Wilde
Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle. - Bob Hope
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. - Oscar Wilde
We [-women and men-] are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the functions we were created to perform, as different as water from stones, and engineering from imaginative fiction. - Mary McDermott Shideler
Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it? - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. - Gloria Steinem
Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age. - Widad Akreyi
When you're that age, you sometimes have a great enthusiasm that is very deep and very narrow, and that is something that has always intrigued me-- that world of the eleven-year-old that is so quickly lost. - Alan Bradley
Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally? - John Steinbeck
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety. - William Shakespeare
You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.
At our age, surely there are better things to sustain us, to sustain a marriage, than the brief flame of passion?" ..."You are mistaken, Ernest," she said at last. "There is only the passionate spark. Without it, two people living together may be lonelier than if they lived quite alone. - Helen Simonson
g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor" --w.e.b. dubois - Debois
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. - Clarence Day Jr.
The glory of the age is beauty of grayhair. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons. - Roman Payne
The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination. - Murad S. Shah
Information age. I guess I'm part of it, even if I can't remember how to use my iPhone from week to week, and have to learn how to send e-mails all over again every couple of years, and can't retain any profound technological knowledge about the computers I sometimes use. - Anne Rice
His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old. - Terry Pratchett
The rivers fight with each other with the only currency that they know water. We humans fight with the only currency that we know in this age violence. - Amish Tripathi
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. - Edith Wharton
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic. - Robert Musil
But no one can rid himself of the preaching clergyman. He is the bore of the age, the old man whom we Sinbads cannot shake off, the nightmare that disturbs our Sunday's rest, the incubus that overloads our religion and makes God's service distasteful. - Trollope Anthony 1815-1882
To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency how to accurately anticipate the future. - Dan Burrus
As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't. - Tiffany Madison
At age 50, every man has the face he deserves. - George Orwell
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest. - Fernando Pessoa
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. - George Burns
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H.L. Mencken
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply space. - Peter Kreeft
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. - Margaret Atwood
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it. - Doris Day
I have no doubt that ignorance is the biggest obstacle facing the church of the lord Jesus Christ in this age - Sunday Adelaja
Age is not specified by years, but how you feel and right now I am 99 year old - MHQ
I was born at a very early age. As I grew up, I got older... So far though, this is the oldest I've ever been. - Rebecca Hurley
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
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
The problem with memories is they get more valuable with time, and the places we keep them get weaker with age. - Michael Xavier
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. - Philip Roth
Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age. - Harley King
I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. - Judy Garland
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left. - Joe L. Wheeler
I am grieved for my children—and boy’s in particular—that this modern age is emasculating men under the guise of the best interest of the children. - H. Kirk Rainer
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence. - Søren Kierkegaard
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. - Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life. - Jeff Buckley
Never put an age limit on your dreams. - Dara Torres
I miss being the age when I thought I'd have my shit together by the time I was the age I am now.. - k.j. force
There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration. - John Baker
On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear. - Audrey Hepburn
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. - Thomas Gold
Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one’s realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry. - Josef Pieper
it does not count a day if you do not learn something new from it ,its not nice to become old in years while your true age is only a few days - alaa zabaneh
I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest, for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. - William Shakespeare
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. - Oprah Winfrey
Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills - Fela Durotoye
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. - Charles Kingsley
PhD is possible at any age! - Lailah Gifty Akita
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning. - Bob Hope
Regardless of one’s age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful. - Eraldo Banovac
So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze. - Charles Frazier
Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age. - Anne Gracie
From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it. - Bette Davis
I'm having a glorious old age. One of my greatest delights is that I have outlived most of my opposition. - Maggie Kuhn
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a happy bunch of chuckleheads. - William Styron
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience. - Diane Keaton
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. - Oscar Wilde
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. - Fred Astaire
Don't tell people to act their age. It's like telling a baby to move out, and if they're older you're telling them to "die in a hole." - Devin J. Monroe
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them. - Pearl Buck
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee. - Hannah Whitall Smith
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.
Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever. - Chris Jirika
Não se deve entender como pirata uma pessoa agindo sob constrangimento, mas sim alguém que age livremente. Pois nesse caso, não é o ato em si mesmo que torna alguém culpado, mas sim a sua livre vontade de cometê-lo. - Daniel Defoe
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies
I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. - Karl Pilkington
There is new research showing that our creative potential increases with age. Our creativity is a product of our inner and outer experience, and as we get older, we have all kinds of experience to draw on. Also, research tells us that creativity brings energy, vitality and good health. - Sandra A. Cusack
I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.
Not every age is fit for childish sports. - Titus Maccius Plautus
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. - Lawrence Clark Powell
There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later. - Nikki Rowe
At every age we play the same game, just by different rules. - Mohammed Khambaty
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus - Alfred Tennyson
At age 6 I was born without a face. - Arin Hansen
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. - Katharine Hepburn
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of age justly take woman of age to cure themselves of the diseases of youth. - Roman Payne
It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess. - Harper Lee
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about.Then reason's light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast.Honor to age, ye children pay!Alas! my fifty years are past! - Pierre-Jean de Béranger
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. - Tom Lehrer
You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. When at last age has assembled you together, will it not be easy to let it all go, lived, balanced, over? - Florida Scott-Maxwell
In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity. - Debasish Mridha
Don't strive to be beautiful from the outside, instead, strive to be beautiful from the inside, Surface beauty will fade through time & age, beauty from the heart, however, never will! - Emily Eaton (Me)
In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it. - Bernard Levin
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.
With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. - Sandra Lake
Experience doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except "Carry bags underneath your eyes". A real experience comes by "Doing it , Learning from failures and again Doing it .... !" - - Satish Kumar Ankala
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you. - Carol Grace
Age is not important unless you're a cheese. - Helen Hayes
At this age, all we need to do is to "WAIT" in our love life.Set your priorities, Endeavor your goals! - Marielle Arias Cleofe
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. - Robert Jordan
What shall I do to be for ever known,And make the age to come my own? - Abraham Cowley
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. - Colette
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. - Friedrich Nietzsche
...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed... - John Geddes
I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15. - Mark A. Cooper
This is what youth must figure out:Girls, love, and living.The having, the not having,The spending and giving,And the meloncholy time of not knowing.This is what age must learn about:The ABC of dying.The going, yet not going,The loving and leaving,And the unbearable knowing and knowing - E.B. White
David Bowie was my creative northstar, a muse, an inspiration to me from the age of 8. He was a special soul on a mission, and the mission is now complete. I know he is truly home now among the stars. - Eileen Anglin
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound. - Alain de Botton
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
...if only the comfortable prosperity of the Victorian age hadn't lulled us into a false conviction of individual security and made us believe that what was going on outside our homes didn't matter to us, the Great War might never have happened. - Vera Brittain
To refuse ever to deny your youth, right up to extreme old age, to battle all life long to transubstantiate your adolescent flowering into a fruit-ladden tree - that, I belive, is the road of the fulfilled man. (Report to Greco) - N. Kazantzakis
In an age of rampant chronic disease, reconnecting with the Earth's energy beneath our very feet may provide a way back to better health and keeping our bodies in top condition throughout our lives. - Jed Diamond
It is never late to earn a degree, masters or doctorate. Learning has no age limit. All age groups are welcome to the act of learning. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The meaning of pain is different for different people ... It depends on their age, their experience and their knowledge. But the intensity of it is the same, young or old ... and unfortunately it is inevitable ... just like failure, that results in more pain ...It's a vicious cycle. - Shreyas Tripathy
Whatever you've been doing with the girls or women your age won't cut it. - Auliq Ice
All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. - Adam Smith
She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it. - Richard J. O'Brien
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. - Laurence Binyon
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. - Willa Cather
The glory of age is a gorgeous soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile. - Robert Jordan
Since I got rid of syndicated and indoctrinated media my life is a product of what I seek and not what I am told. I recommend everyone in the age of information to demand more of what they seek rather simply pushing the favorite list on their remote control. - James Emlund
When asking about ones age the question asked is how old are you.I would hereby like to advocate rephrasing this as - how young are you? - Amit Abraham
The glory of age is beauty of gray hair. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute. - Firesign Theatre
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. - Brooks Atkinson
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. - Phyllis Diller
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence. - Lyman Bryson
A face-lift is a woman’s attempt to lower the odds of the next person accurately guessing her age. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In youth we learn; in age we understand. - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment. - John Piper
Age is only a number. Maturity to a large extent is dependent on your exposure to life, its experiences and your lessons from them. - Omoakhuana Anthonia
As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is. - Roman Payne
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. - P. G. Wodehouse
One's character is set at an early age, son. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life." He was quiet for a minute then dropped the curtain and said, "I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back. - Wendelin Van Draanen
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek. - Bill Cosby
I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel. - Bill Bryson
In this day and age we care more about our pride than our lives. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
In life you’ll face difficulties that postpone some of your dreams. Regardless, life goes fast by reminding us youth is finite and old age is stable. So you mustn’t stop dreaming and running while your strength is yet tough. - Darmie Orem
Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age. - Ben Johnson
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein
One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. - William Styron
I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as on seventy years; granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age. - Ernest Hemingway
I don't act my age, I act my personality. - Khaya Dlanga
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand. - Ovid
I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.
Wisdom comes from education and experience—not from age. - Debasish Mridha
Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age. - Alexei Maxim Russell
I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. - Paul Bettany
whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present? - Michel de Montaigne
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. - Thomas Jefferson
We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away. - Tiffany Madison
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools! - Marshall McLuhan
In my dreams, I never have an age. - Madeleine L'Engle
Death, displacement and injury caused by conflicts constitute one of the most devastating epidemics of our age. - Widad Akreyi
I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. - Louise Nevelson
AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit. - Ambrose Bierce
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved. - Russell Baker
Everyone is the age of their heart. - Guatemalan Proverb
My age and the ages of my children are imaginary numbers. - Carol L. Covin
Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese. - Billie Burke
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. - Denis Diderot
I'd go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. - George Burns
Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do! - Théophile Thoré
We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away. - Mark Twain
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle
Shaga: How would you like to die, little man?Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock. - George R.R. Martin
Who was it who said something about the Indians being argumentative, good soul, let him come to Haridwar and meet this bunch. Good for him too, if he adapts with age; for if after fifty you don't live the aspirations of the young, go away. Who needs spectacle snails salivating on the Soma of youth? - Aporva Kala
The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking. - Albert Schweitzer
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. - Samuel Johnson
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment. - Benjamin Franklin
[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back. - Orson Scott Card
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
Whatever change you desire for the world, create that change in your own life. You are here for a purpose. Seek it out. Hunt it down. The greatest misery is to be purposeless. The great depression of our age is not economic, but spiritual. Our spiritual poverty is rooted in our purposelessness. - Matthew Kelly
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. - Dean Koontz
When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old! - Stephen Richards
We have reached the age of denial, we have become happiness seekers, afraid to feel. We are told to think positive, to seek only joy. Stores overflow with books selling you ways to rid yourself of ‘negative’ feelings. - Aysha Taryam
Age does not mean wisdom, Do not follow the old man off the cliff. - James Pedigo
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. - Robinson Jeffers
We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others. - Israelmore Ayivor
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. - Bo Bennett
Time stops when you are in love, even as you age. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
God has permitted the great lie for a short time only. That time is now coming to an end. Believers in the lie! You have been raised on the milk of your concrete beliefs. Now it is time for you to be weaned to partake of the solid food of the new age, the "New World Order. - Compton Gage
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. - Ernest Hemingway
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Bernard M. Baruch
My age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly. - William Shakespeare
Every stage of life is unique.At any age and stage of life there are obstacles and opportunities, trials and triumphs. Never allow the negative bring to you to sudden halt.Make the most of the positive opportunities and stay positive. - Lailah Gifty Akita
1 Corinthians 3:18-19Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become 'fools' so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. - Anonymous
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. - Leon Trotsky
I think the hardest part of being a teenage, or any age really, is the misconception that you're alone. You're not alone. You're not the only one going through what you're going through, and life does get better if you want it to. - Ellie Elisabeth
I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater frequency. - Theodore Dalrymple
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. - Aristotle
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury. - Alain de Botton
Studies conducted in a city in Zimbabwe found that half of reported rape cases involve girls less than 15 years of age and that girls are most vulnerable to sexual abuse by male relatives, neighbors and school teachers. - Njovana Watts
Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world? - Christy Leigh Stewart
Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom - George Carlin
Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more. - Brandi L. Bates
My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so,it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that gaurds the door,and this dragon is religion - Bertrand Russell
Never underestimate the value of advice from anyone, whether they are younger or older than you. Wisdom is not categorised under age - Unarine Ramaru
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Netiquette brings the World together through the Internet for the Information Age. It's all data. NetworkEtiquette.net - David Chiles
Does your guilty past catch up so fast with your age? You've been robbing hex nuts, cap nuts, lock nuts and wing nuts. No wonder you have turned into a greedy nut." ~ , If I Could Tell You - Angelica Hopes
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. - Christopher Morley
Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. - George Burns
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
You can learn at any age. - Lailah Gifty Akita
When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life. - Noel Gallagher
She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age. - Dorothy Parker
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. - Oprah Winfrey
Knowledge comes naturally with studying, and with God's touch, instantly. Wisdom comes naturally with age, and with God's touch, immediately. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. - Voltaire
Leadership or being a leader is not measured on our power, rich or poor, the age and status in life. It is about the willingness to be able to help and inspire others. - Kiarra Neri
Leadership isn't about age but rather, leadership is about influence, impact & inspiration. - Onyi Anyado
When you are busy with living your life, age can never find you to make her mark. - Debasish Mridha
People will laugh at your age over your Mind and Essence - Goitsemang Mvula
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. - Pindar
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age. - Homer
Worse than that, however, was the CFO, a dapper-suited, neat-haired new age carapace containing an uninhibited misogynistic bogan, whose actual words to me, in concert with my boss in the same room were: 'To be successful you have to accept that weekends are for families. - Annabel Crabb
Age never matters when there is a will to learn more will to learn better.!!Always remember, every success story begins with a START.!!Anyone can desire but there are few who DESERVE.!!Anyone can desire, be the one who DESERVE.!! - Harsh Malik
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
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind. - Don Marquis
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. - Sophie Tucker
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed. - Robert Heinlein
To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not? - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every stage of life is unique.At any age and every stage of life there are obstacles and opportunities, trials and triumphs. Never allow the negative bring to you to sudden halt.Make the most of the positive opportunities and stay positive. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. - Doris Day
From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. - George Orwell
Age is a number, not a soul. You can't read somebody entirely by a number. - Mekiah Johnson
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. - Samuel Johnson
When kids hit the age of one, they're like miniature drunks. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh, then two minutes later they're crying. They drool.
To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. - Plutarch
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. - Katherine Dunn
Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau
A matured woman is therefore a responsible woman irrespective of her age, status and qualification. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Being your age is hard enough without having to act it. - P.K. Shaw
The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.
I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. - George Burns
People age even when you're not looking. - Randy K. Milholland
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. - William O. Douglas
I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions. - Erica Goros
You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic. - Debasish Mridha
When humanity finally emerges from the Middle Ages altogether, when he stops connecting psychic behavior with"the work of the Devil" or with some unknown, unmentionable force, then he will emerge into the New Age of enlightenment. - Daniel Logan
I would have dearly liked to close the French doors between us for a bit of peace, but Mam wouldn't allow it; she said that solitude would give me ideas and the last thing a boy of my age needed was ideas. - John Boyne
If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools.
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. - Edmund Burke
In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent. - Barack Obama
Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that’s why so many adults read YA: we’re never done coming of age. - Betsy Cornwell
With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity. - Rae Lori
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. - Democritus
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. - Evelyn Waugh
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. - Marshall McLuhan
Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect. - Hugo Ball
Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and it is oblivious of age or gender - Rodney Compton
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. - Ogden Nash
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. - Eric Hoffer
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. - Titus Maccius Plautus
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. - Oscar Wilde
Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both. - William Shakespeare
Embrace the glory of age. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I believe in the possibility of positive change at every age and every stage of life. Your whole life is ahead of you. - Eleanor Brownn
Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration. - Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
At the age of my play this country gave me a stone on my head. - Tanmaya Guru
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Bernard M. Baruch
Age doesn't count, but sense - Eli Coffie
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. - Mark Twain
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. - Abigail Van Buren
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. - Lord Chesterfield
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. - Maxwell Anderson
Baba always used to say that as we age, things change, we become more rigid, and then eventually, most of us, become forgiving again. He called it the cycle of life. - Yasmine El Rashidi
Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger - Eiichiro Oda
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. - Gloria Pitzer
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you believe getting close to being 50 is bad... wait to see how one feels when getting far crom that age - Luispa
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20. - Warren Buffett
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. - Lytton Strachey
If people respect your age and not your personality, then it's time for you to do some urgent introspection. - Amit Kalantri
I have discovered," he said to Charles Dewy, "that when a man marries, peace of mind and freedom go out of the window.""Well, old boy," said Charles comfortably, "that's the price we have to pay for having company in our old age and for ensuring that we have heirs to follow us. - Colleen McCullough
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. - Margaret Mead
Your heart can break at any age. - Cecelia Ahern
Why not be happy after a while? You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to get happy. - John Mayer
We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you should be doing it. - Clifford Cohen
Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, belief, and sexuality but also of age and experience. The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. - Andrew Solomon
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. - Bill Vaughn
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas
No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is - Corky Pollan
Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling.(Isshin Kurosaki) - Tite Kubo
We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men. - Edward R. Murrow
Your chronological age makes you older, grownNess is a state of mind! - Sheila Tiller-Tooks
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. - Leonardo da Vinci
What's my age again? - Blink-182
the most weird things about elders, they learned it on a quiet younger age & don't want us to. - Srinivas Shenoy
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. - Maurice Chevalier
The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together. - William Shakespeare
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgement. - Benjamin Franklin
Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great library, great library is a freedom within wisdom in this digital age - Baris Gencel
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot. - Judy Garland
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. - William Feather
In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society. - Winston S. Churchill
When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done. - Amit Kalantri
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese - Luis Buñuel
Looking back on it now, I'd say one's thirties are a cruel age. At this point, I think of them as a time I whiled away unaware of the tide that can suddenly pull you out, beyond the shallows, into the sea of hardship, and even death - Takashi Hiraide
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass. - Alain de Botton
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. - George Orwell
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we’re idling in front of our computer screens. - Joshua Foer
So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does. - Caleb Carr
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age. - Albert Einstein
Age brings maturity, experience ripens it. - Vimal Athithan
To spend your time trying to make your body flawless is to waste your time. Even if it appears to match some externalized ideals of perfection for a moment, your physical self will wrinkle and age. Work on your mind. Work on your legacy. - Vironika Tugaleva
Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same. - Hayao Miyazaki
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age - Isaac Newton
You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. - Oscar Wilde
This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press. - Sara Sheridan
Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction. - Sunday Adelaja
A beautiful face will age and a perfect body will change, but an awesome person will always be an awesome person. - Tanya Masse
We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline? - Donna Lynn Hope
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God. - A.B. Simpson
Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities? - R.C. Sproul Jr.
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. - Carol Matthau
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally and often far more worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - C.S. Lewis
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. - M.H. Abrams
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. - Dale Turner
CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose Bierce
We are always the same age inside. - Gertrude Stein
We are equal, we re all Humans, we are all related in some way. It doesn't matter what colour our skins is, our race, beliefs, gender, age, we are all equal. I say now is the right time to unite, if we do not unite soon something bads gonna happen - Anon1467
Unless we do something and do it quickly, we may be going back to an economic stone age. - Kenneth Eade
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. - Mark Twain
Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. - Aphra Behn
Young age can be experience just once, but immaturity never leaves even we grown up?? - bheng927
when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope - Laurell K. Hamilton
It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage... - Robert Frost
The age measured from the date of birth is just a number, The mental age always makes the difference - Ramy El-Mahdy
Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. - Pope John Paul II
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age. - Habeeb Akande
Wisdom is not measured by age ,Intelligence is not measured by grades ,Personality is not measured by what others say - O.Z "Osama Alzoubi"
Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years! - Tanya Masse
Age is no guarantee of maturity. - Lawana Blackwell
Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the Qur'an. - Jim Al-Khalili
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. - Rita Rudner
It is a Blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough to stand by his own convictions - Robert Ingersoll
We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours. - Natsume Soseki
Science has given us a great lie. It is this lie that ends the current age of faith in God. - Compton Gage
Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style. - Amit Kalantri
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. - Dejan Stojanovic
(The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) "have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours. - Bruce Frankel
Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living. - David Baldacci
Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;No wisdom but in submission to the gods.Big words are always punished,And proud men in old age learn to be wise. - Sophocles
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly. - Umberto Eco
With age brings wisdom; with youth brings innovation. Combine the two and they are unstoppable. - Ocian Hamel-Smith
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf. - Andrew Davidson
Most men who are not married by the age of thirty-five are either homosexual or really smart.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. - Sophia Loren
Grades don't measure Intelligence, Age doesn't define Maturity - An intelligent student
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
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. - Norman Douglas
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. - E. Joseph Cossman
According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age. - Brian Greene
We are in the age of achievements provided we are adequately informed. we are not too young to make a difference nor too old to chart a new course - Sesan Kareem
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. - Agatha Christie
. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity. - Edward Clodd
Age isn't triggered by wrinkles,nor by the reduction of strong footing,for the true youth exists effectively in your heart,brightens through your smile and beats slow when your heart is right, innocent like that of a child - Nwilliams S C
Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. - William Blake
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul. - Douglas MacArthur
You can rewire your brain and reinvent your life at any age - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty? - Patrick Henry
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. - Charles Caleb Colton
Youth is the most suitable age to enjoy the life completely or to work diligently for the life, what you decide makes your rest of the life ordinary or legendary respectively. - Amit Kalantri
I acquired courage from the masterpieces of sages. I came of age by their instructions to keep going, even in hard times. Then I learnt not to despair, even when it seemed that my world is falling apart. I learnt to possess fortitude. - Ogwo David Emenike
As one attains the age of 18 having fully acquired the basic education, one becomes responsible for whatever decision he makes, whatever opinion he chooses to accept and whatever style of life he chooses to live.Above age 18, the waywardness of a child depends on the child. - OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
It is the present living generation that gives character and spirit to the next. Hence the paramount importance of accomplished and energetic teachers in forming the taste the manners and the character of the coming age. - Alexander Campbell
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.
The signature of our eyes, in other words, the way we look never changes even at the age of hundred! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. - Brandon Boyd
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. - H. Mumford Jones
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. - J. K. Rowling
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishesinto debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,and brings in perennial interest. - Frederick Soddy
The foolishness of youth with the cynicism of age is a dangerous combination. - Murad S. Shah
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! - Leo Buscaglia
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. - Booth Tarkington
Most people my age are dead at the present time. - Casey Stengel
True happiness is enjoying the time as much as possible with the children of age up to 6 by being a kid amidst them. - Anuj Somany
Age is glory. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. - William Shakespeare
It seems in this day and age, people are banking on a Faith that has long since checked out. - Solange nicole
He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves. - Mark Costello
Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I grow more intense as I age. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
I never wanted anything new; from the age of ten, I was convinced that you couldn't replace what was lost. I insisted on things on having to be found. - Cecelia Ahern
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Be charming at any age. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs; some wear one to conceal their age. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing. - George Foreman
I think we're moving toward a world where all the consumers under a certain age will probably tend to identify more with their consumer status or with the products they consume then they would with ... any sort of antiquated notion of nationality. - Gibson, William
It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians. - Tiffany Madison
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. - Ambrose Bierce
Age is a timeless beauty. At each mile in my life journey, I am a distinctive blend of what I've experienced and the unique talents I was given to share with others. - Jeanne McElvaney
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. - George Sand
You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind. - Habeeb Akande
Don't strive to be beautiful from the outside, strive to be beautiful from the inside. Surface beauty will fade through time and age, but beauty from the heart, however, will never fade. - Emily Eaton
We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age. - Agatha Christie
The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be 'that stabbin' Dilbert guy.' - Scott Adams
Indiscretion is weighted heavily towards youth; inaction is weighted heavily towards old age. - Clifford Cohen
Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate. - Seneca
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi
In an age of sophistic over-complexity, simplicity can be useful. - William Krystol
Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all. - Dara Horn
Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals. - Amit Kalantri
The key to happiness is loving yourself. For years I have struggled to reach this point and even now at the age of 20 I will be honest in saying I am not 100% there yet. However, I will say I am much closer to that 100 than I was 5 years ago. - Gabriela M. Sanchez
A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality. - Israelmore Ayivor
Now that I’ve reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I’ve learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like… That’s as far as I’ve gotten I’m afraid. - Ben Mitchell
..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will: - William Wordsworth
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment - Thomas Jefferson
Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom. - Solon
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. - Joseph Conrad
Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Old age is always fifteen years older than I am. - Bernard M. Baruch
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over. - Ernest Hemingway
After supper they saw Kaluka to the boardwalk, and then strolled back along the beach to Asbury. The evening sea was a new sensation, for all its color and mellow age was gone, and it seemed the bleak waste that made the Norse sagas sad. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Old age begins when reflection overcomes planning. - L. Michael Hager
Education is not limited to any age - Lailah Gifty Akita
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. - Francis Bacon
Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts. - Debasish Mridha
Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon - Roger Lowenstein
Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. - Ambrose Bierce
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. - Bias
Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. - Naomi Wolf
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax This won't hurt - Hunter S. Thompson
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. - Maya Angelou
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity. - James Russell Lowell
Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die. - Coco Chanel
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. - W. Somerset Maugham
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
Do you know what you're saying when you say, "Whatever"? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by "you." And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' " Blaze leaned back. "So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.' (72) - Nicholas Sparks
A sage never measures people's maturity by their age, but fools do and offer them accordingly their wage. - Anuj Somany
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. - John Lennon
Age withers only the outside.
Age can’t dull the beauty of life that reflects and radiates from within. - Debasish Mridha
Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life. - Katharine Graham
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. - Eleanor Roosevelt
I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back. - Lindsay Lohan
I have come to the realization that I have reached the age or mental state of the entering a room with thought in mind syndrome only to find the thought took a turn and went elsewhere...fortunately it wasn't a life or death issue... Sept 24, 2016... thinking about life - kjforce
A plastic surgeon should never tell anybody to age gracefully. Rather his motto should be to make people age youthfully. - Jas Kohli
In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know. - Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books. - C.S. Lewis
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. - Cicero
If youth only knew: if age only could. - Henri Estienne
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. - Benjamin Haydon
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. - Jeff Marder
I grew up in an era that was a golden age of the blockbuster, when something we might call a family film could have universal appeal. That's something I want to see again. In terms of the tone of the film, it looks at where we are as a people and has a universality about human experience. - Christopher J. Nolan
I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as they age. - Ashley Ormon
We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure—and always shall, so long as we keep doing science. - Timothy Ferris
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. - Joe Gores
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein
To be honest, i know noting about religion, since the world was created thousand of years ago, am just 30 years of age, and have stopped asking questions about how things came to being, but the truth about what i know is that the truth does not exit because i know noting - lanre efizie
We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it. - Stephen Kuusisto
Love has no age, race, wealth, ethnic bakground, gender, or appearence. Love is love and that's the way it's supposed to be. - TheKatAttack
If you don’t want to change, you are kicked out of the technological age. - Sunday Adelaja
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions. - Abraham Lincoln
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