Age Quotes - page 11

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care. (William Shakespeare)
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside -- from others. We do not accept it willingly. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Age considers; youth ventures. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. View quote
Mark Twain
I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. View quote
Tryon Edwards
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth. View quote
Walter Scott
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. View quote
Walter Scott
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination. View quote
Walt Whitman
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near. (Saul Bellow)
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-that is to triumph over old age. View quote
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen. View quote
Albert Einstein
No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. View quote
Max Weber
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
Thus the Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit. View quote
John Ralston Saul
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. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. View quote
Ronald Reagan
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)
In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night. View quote
Mark Spitz
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. View quote
Martha Beck
People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things. View quote
Nina Garcia
It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. View quote
Norman Spinrad