Quotes about age
age literature kind
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. Raymond Chandler
agency chess waste
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
agendas accepting missions
To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God’s agenda for your life. Rick Warren
age world ugly
I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both. Tracey Emin
age expertise
We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on. Vince Staples
age excellent moral-outrage
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. Maggie Kuhn
age
The best age is the age you are.
age useless disease
There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.
age bottles habitat
I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by age. Neatness makes me feel like I have to be on my best behavior. Clutter is my natural habitat. Maggie Stiefvater
age lucky stills
I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working. Mackenzie Astin
age noble firsts
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Madame de Stael
age lasts steps
the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.
age difficult grows
It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
age
You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have. Haruki Murakami
age splits spirituality
The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages. Hans Urs von Balthasar
age ink veins
Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink. Karl Kraus
age talent preserves
Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.
age looks attempting
Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. Karl Lagerfeld
age brides old-age
There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride. Joyce Kilmer
age twenties wonderful
Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked. Oveta Culp Hobby
age conscious
age is nothing but death that is conscious. Ouida
age facts
Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.
agency government views
The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated, that the state is not only an institution of necessity but also of welfare. By recognizable and direct advantages they must be led to look upon the state not as an agency devised solely for the protection of the better-situated classes of society but also as one serving their needs and interests. Otto von Bismarck
age ruins reason
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. Saint Basil
age comfort savagery
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves. Will Self
age amusement parks
In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.
agents presses
It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent. W. C. Fields
age together empires
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. Zbigniew Brzezinski
age three hiccups
When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it. Sara Gruen
age lag lasts
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. Samuel Johnson
age credit form
Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.
age shore
Wrecked on the lee shore of age. Sarah Orne Jewett
age unhappy youth
In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom. Virgil