Quotes About Age

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

A face can have a thousand wrinkles, but the soul have none.

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.

The older you get, the more you learn.

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

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.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

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, just as the man who spends too much time in the theatre is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.

Reading after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Elige a personas mayores para que sean tus enemigos. Ellos mueren. Tú ganas (Albert Einstein)

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, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen

Die Freunde, an die ich denke, sind in der Zeit gefangen wie in einem Film. Sie (viele von ihnen sind tot, verschollen) sind in dem Alter, in dem ich sie zuletzt gesehen habe; ich bezweifle, dass sie mich jetzt wiedererkennen würden.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Our epoch has been give many nicknames--the Age of Anxiety, the Atomic Age, the Space Age. It might, with equally good reason, be called the Age of Television Addiction, the Age of Soap Opera, the Age of the Disk Jockey.

Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system.

Spode hurried away for counsel to Badgery House. Lord Badgery surprisingly rose to the occasion. Ask Boreham to come and see me, he told the footman, who answered his ring. Boreham was one of those immemorial butlers who linger on, generation after generation, in the houses of the great. He was over eighty now, bent, dried up, shrivelled with age.

La vejez, esa primera muerte de las cortesanas.

I am old, and solitary as well, and you can't think how long the nights are to us old folk.

Voglio raccontarvi quel che so, perchè anche voi capiate quello che io ho capito: la guerra è un'ossessione dei vecchi, che mandano i giovani a combatterla.