Age Quotes - page 8

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever. (Dylan Thomas)
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare . View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. View quote
Billy Joel
How young can you die of old age? View quote
Steven Wright
Old age is an incurable disease. View quote
Seneca
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. View quote
William Wilberforce
She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age. View quote
John Dryden
Professionally, I have no age. View quote
Kathleen Turner
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. (Gloria Steinem)
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. View quote
Robert Browning
Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life. View quote
Muriel Spark
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age. View quote
Ben Hecht
Every time there's a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I'll tell you. In this day and age, I think it's important that people know that. View quote
Jack White
Political nationalism has become, for the European of our age the most important thing in the world, more important than civilization, humanity, decency, kindness, pity, more important than life itself. View quote
Norman Angell
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
As we age, we become more foolish and wiser. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. (Tom Stoppard)
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. View quote
Oscar Wilde
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives. View quote
Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. View quote
Oscar Wilde
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. View quote
Gene Fowler