Quotes About Age

Benjamin felt himself on the verge of a proposal--with an effort he choked back the impulse. You're just the romantic age, she continued--fifty. Twenty-five is too wordly-wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is--oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.

When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love.

His mind, under the influence of that insidious mildew which eventually forms on all but the few, gave itself up furiously to every indignation of the age.

Tengo treinta años -dije-. He rebasado en cinco años la edad de mentirme a mí mismo y llamarle a eso honor.

He was enough older than Nicole to take pleasure in her youthful vanities and delights, the way she paused fractionally in front of the hall mirror on leaving the restaurant, so that the incorruptible quicksilver could give her back to herself.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

Ho sempre pensato che fino ai diciotto anni, niente importi», disse Mary. «È vero», concordò Abe. «E dopo è uguale».

Old man and I had a long talk about the weather just now.

She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.

Otuzuma girdim, dedim. Kendime yalan söyleyip bunun ad?na onur diyecek ya?? beÅŸ y?l geçtim.

I'm too young to be old and too old to be young.

I'm too young to be old and too old to be young. I

Evelyn leaned out her window and calmly said, "Let's face it, honey, I'm older than you are and have more insurance than you do," and drove away.

sono troppo giovane per essere vecchia e troppo vecchia per essere giovane! Non riesco a collocarmi in nessuna categoria.

The basic problem for American workers of all ages has been that their hours and productivity keep rising but their wages do not.

I don't think she looks sixty, do you Nik?" "Are you kidding! She looks better than we do and we're only thirty-six.

she reached fifty-nine, she felt Tanner's arm relax and loosen his possessive hold.

Ser novo é não ser velho. Ser velho é ter opiniões. Ser novo é não querer saber de opiniões para nada.

I have never forgotten that phrase of the biologist, Haeckel, whom I read in the infancy of my intelligence, at that age when one reads scientific publications and arguments against religion. The phrase goes more or less like this: the superior man (a Kant or a Goethe, I think he says) is farther removed from the common man than the common man is from the monkey.

Ä°lerde bir gün gelecek olanlar daha ÅŸimdiden yaÅŸl?yd?; sadece hiç gelmeyecek olanlar gençti.

In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

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.

If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.