Age Quotes - page 24

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)
I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill. View quote
George Burns
At my age flowers scare me. View quote
George Burns
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. View quote
George Burns
At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30, the wit at 40, the judgment. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature. View quote
Daniel Goleman
Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries. View quote
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age. (Tobias Smollett)
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. View quote
Franklin Pierce Adams
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part. View quote
Bram Stoker
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not. View quote
Jane Austen
If the Soul sees, after death, what passes on this earth, and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery, and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten. View quote
Albert Pike
My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. View quote
William Osler
Age carries with it a double load of guilt. View quote
José Saramago
Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour. View quote
Kenneth Clark
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the motion and the other inner forces.... the modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. View quote
Jackson Pollock
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we're living in... All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within. (Jackson Pollock)
It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express his age, the airplane the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of Renaissance or of any past culture. Each age finds its own technique... View quote
Jackson Pollock
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed. View quote
T. S. Eliot
There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change. View quote
John Brunner