Age Quotes - page 6

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. (Mignon McLaughlin)
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. View quote
A. J. P. Taylor
And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
Old age is no place for sissies. View quote
Bette Davis
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. View quote
Ogden Nash
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
What is an adult? A child blown up by age. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
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. View quote
Sophocles
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. View quote
William Feather
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. View quote
Isaac Newton
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
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. View quote
Albert Einstein
The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. View quote
Sophia Bush
You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. View quote
Junot Diaz
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized. View quote
Alva Myrdal
The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship. View quote
Don Tapscott
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. (Emily Greene Balch)
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language. View quote
Luke Harding
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible. View quote
John Woolman
Every age has its happiness and troubles. View quote
Jeanne Calment
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. View quote
Flannery O’Connor