Age Quotes - page 16

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season. (Cicero)
Old age is by nature rather talkative. View quote
Cicero
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogeneous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of the written language. View quote
Italo Calvino
Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results. View quote
George F. Kennan
My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power-not with ground forces. View quote
Curtis LeMay
A man has four natural enemies: fear, clarity, power, and old age. Fear, clarity and power can be overcome, but not old age. Its effect can be postponed, but it can never be overcome. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking. View quote
Amy Winehouse
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
I certainly wouldn't compare the rewards of watching one's children grow and mature with that of money piling up at the box office. Both are pleasant, but to varying degrees. As the old saying goes, you can't take an audience home with you. You can't depend on the loyalty of fans, who, after all is said and done, are just faceless people one seldom sees. And few stars have their fans forever. But a child is forever. That bond and relationship is timeless and doesn't depend on your looks, age or popularity at the moment. View quote
Julie Andrews
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. View quote
Edward Gibbon
It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries. (Edward Gibbon)
Its not age as much as the experiences I have had. View quote
Tony Curtis
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devils leavings. View quote
Alexander Pope
In every age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! View quote
Alexander Pope
At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying. View quote
Robert Jordan
The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot. View quote
Liv Tyler
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too. View quote
Liv Tyler
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. View quote
Pope Paul VI
We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about - and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. View quote
Henry James
By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country. (Nancy Pelosi)
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests. View quote
Terence
We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally. View quote
John Rawls
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age. View quote
Giacomo Leopardi
The surest sign of age is loneliness. View quote
Annie Dillard