Age Quotes - page 23

I remember, when I was young, How easily my mood changed from sad to gay. ... But now that age comes, A moment of joy is harder and harder to get. (Bai Juyi)
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry. View quote
Thomas Browne
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. View quote
Thomas Moore
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries! View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child. View quote
Georg Brandes
It appears to [Nietzsche] that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... [Third] Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth. View quote
Georg Brandes
Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies. View quote
Daniel Boone
An Idle youth, a needy Age. View quote
George Herbert
I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit! View quote
Roger Bannister
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. View quote
Don Marquis
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. (Don Marquis)
In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree. View quote
John Gay
We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age. View quote
Douglas Coupland
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 ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past! View quote
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own? View quote
Abraham Cowley
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth. View quote
Richard Steele
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. View quote
Lin Yutang
In this Age, when it is said of a man, He knows how to live, it may be implied he is not very honest. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting. (Amelia Earhart)
The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity. View quote
Jonathan Sacks
In recent years, hours of work have been reduced, holidays have been increased, the age of entry into employment has gone up, and above all, our general health and expectation of life as a people have markedly improved. It is a natural corollary of these changes that we should work longer and retire later. View quote
Hugh Gaitskell
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I saw Hamlet Pr: of Denmark played: but now the old playe began to disgust this refined age. View quote
John Evelyn