Quotes About Age

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

nothing in the world, I thought to myself, is as old as what was futuristic in the past.

The historian deals with the past, but the true storyteller works with the future. You can tell the strength of an age by the imaginative truth-grasping vigour of its storytellers. Stories are matrices of thought. They are patterns formed in the mind. They weave their effect on the future. To be a storyteller is to work with, to weave with, the material of time itself.

almost eighty years old but still sharp and active

Given the age differences, I didn't spend a lot of time with my siblings, except when pressed into service as a babysitter.

He wasn't sure of his age himself; his parents manipulated their records to keep him out of military service.

Everlasting glory didn't come in the form of military victory in this day and age—it came in the form of everlasting social programs that grew and inured to the benefit of all Americans.

young go into the profession with dread, the old can scarcely wait for retirement, and those of the middle years yearn for sabbaticals.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

A government that spoke of military glory as an aim would betray ignorance of, or contempt for, the spirit of nations and the age. It would be an error by a thousand years. Even if it should initially succeed, it would be interesting to see who in the end would win this odd wager, our own century or the offending government.

We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

We live in an age where to be young and to be indifferent can no longer by synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the future are represented by suffering millions; and the youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity

Jesus' teachings were never set before his followers as a finality. God has dealt with Humanity as we deal with children. He has given to everyage Truths adapted to their development.

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.

There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it

I am in the prime of senility.

At 20 years of age the Will reigns; at 30 the Wit; at 40 the Judgment.

Youth is pert and positive, Age modest and doubting: So Ears of Corn when young and light, stand bolt upright, but hang their Heads when weighty, full, and ripe.

There was a difference, he said, between individuals years of maturity were not always accompanied with discretion, neither was youth in every instance devoid of it.

discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.