Quotes About Age

resulta muy duro en los tiempos que vivimos estar loco y ser de mediana edad

Pensó en su hermana, quince años mayor que él, una diferencia de edad que los convertía en miembros de la misma familia situados en órbitas distintas. Ella era la mayor; él era fruto de un accidente, destinado a ser siempre el bebé de la familia

Cuando se tiene la edad que tengo yo, todo trae recuerdos. Uno pasa más tiempo mirando hacia atrás que hacia delante.

And other spirits there are standing apartUpon the forehead of the age to come;These, these will give the world another heart,And other pulses. Hear ye not the humOf mighty workings——?Listen awhile, ye nations, and be dumb.

When old age shall this generation waste,Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woeThan ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know.

If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.

There's no time to muck about with nature and romance. Start thinking like that and you'll be old before your time.

Longevity can be a form of spite. I am an old man myself now, and I recognise the symptoms.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

In the next 25 years, we will see a 100 percent increase in the number of American retirees. The number of workers, however, will increase by only 15 percent. Given those numbers, how can these programs survive? Under our current tax code, these programs can be maintained only by increasing the tax on those who work, reducing benefits for those who have retired or by increasing the age of retirement.

One hundred and one. No person above seventeen years of age shall have any benefit or protection of the law, or be capable of any place of profit or honor, who is not a member of some church or profession, having his name recorded in some one, and but one religious record at once.

A comely old man as busy as a bee.

Later in life, Holmes wrote to his friend Harold Laski, "Every mitigation

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

I'm older than dirt, I've got more scars than Frankenstein, but I've learned a few things along the way.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

You're young," Mallory says. "And the worst thing about being young is not being able to appreciate that you're young because you aren't old enough to know any better.

Ten, she decided, was the perfect age for a boy. J.D. did not need the constant caretaking that the other kids needed, but his heart and mind were still those of a child.

He uses air quotes, which makes him seem like such a boomer. "I appreciate it.