Age Quotes - page 9

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. (Don DeLillo)
Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity. View quote
Michael Chabon
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. View quote
Philip Larkin
The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age. View quote
Georg Brandes
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. View quote
Douglas Coupland
In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet. View quote
William L. Shirer
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. View quote
Bertrand Russell
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. View quote
Bertrand Russell
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet. View quote
Bertrand Russell
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. (Rita Rudner)
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. View quote
George Burns
Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl. View quote
Daisy Ashford
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Every intellectual product must be judged from the point-of-view of the age and the people in which it was produced. View quote
Walter Pater
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. View quote
Francis Bacon
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. View quote
Helen Keller
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age They were not such a plague when I was young What else have I to spur me into song. (William Butler Yeats)
Life moves out of a red flare of dreams into a common light of common hours, until old age bring the red flare again. View quote
William Butler Yeats
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. View quote
John Henry Newman