Quotes About Age

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.

I've reached a stage and an age in my career where I need to do work that keeps me economically and emotionally comfortable. And for that I need to get into spaces that don't require me to make too many compromises with my beliefs as an an actor.

Get matured or call yourself a grandparent. Age never revised. Childish is not an excuse.

She was benediction, a touch of faith, life itself coursing through my veins collapsed in age and turmoil, and to my fatigued and weary heart, a new and vibrant throb.

Of all the ages of civilization, this is the most favorable for the development of the imagination, because it is an age of rapid change.

The habit of speaking apologetically of one's self as "being old" merely because one has reached the age of forty, or fifty, instead of reversing the rule and expressing gratitude for having reached the age of wisdom and understanding.

WHY MEN SELDOM SUCCEED BEFORE FORTY

El período entre los cuarenta y los cincuenta es, por regla general, el más fructífero. Las personas no deberían acercarse a esta edad con miedo y temblorosas, sino con esperanza y una ansiosa expectación.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Wisdom in the young is as unattractive as frivolity in the elderly.

common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age eighteen. Furthermore, What sounds intelligent in a conversation or a meeting, or, particularly, in the media, is suspicious.

I am also realizing the nonlinear effect behind success in anything: It is better to have a handful of enthusiastic advocates than hordes of people who appreciate your work—better to be loved by a dozen than liked by the hundreds. This applies to the sales of books, the spread of ideas, and success in general and runs counter to conventional logic. The information age is worsening this effect.

What Erasmus called ingratitudo vulgi, the ingratitude of the masses, is increasing in the age of globalization and the Internet.

He will be resisted by the older ones

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age eighteen.

once a man crossed the forty-year mark, he had shown that very few ailments could harm him.

looks half my age though he is only slightly younger than I

10 year old books feel very aged, out of place, out of sync. 200 year old books feel contemporary. 2000 year old books feel fresh.

Nykyaika: loimme nuoruuden ilman sankaruutta, iän ilman viisautta ja elämän ilman loistoa.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little.

Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.