Quotes About Age

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains.

The heart ages last.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month,Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

U was te? s? dobrzy, m?drzy, starzy ludzie. -Bywali u nas szlachetni, rozumni, godni starzy ludzie.

Growing older is mandatory; growing up is optional.

John Jay og Beatty dukket fram fra en treklynge, de leide hestene i tøylene mens de langsomt spaserte ut i sollyset, tydeligvis fortapt for alt annet enn hverandre.(...) Du store tid, du får det til å høres ut som om vi var på deres alder, la hun til og nikket mot det middelaldrende parets silhuetter mot våningshuset.

She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. "You should go for younger women," she advised me. "They can't always tell.

there are deep stubborn veins of nostalgia for the 1950s (even among people my age; in much of Ireland the fifties didn't end until 1995, when we skipped straight to Thatcher's eighties),

After a few dates, though, and before the relationship had really progressed enough to merit the name, she dumped me. She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. "You should go for younger women," she advised me. "They can't always tell.

she dumped me. She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. "You should go for younger women," she advised me. "They can't always tell.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

Isn't that just like a man. 450-fucking-years-old and he's still thinking with his balls!

Never forget I am old," she said. "What does that mean, Mummy-ji?" "Didn't you know? Old is gold, na.

my mother took a younger man as a lover. They spent all day in her boudoir, festering in each other's company.

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

Built in the early days after the Romans colonized Campania, the structure was vastly older than Rome's famous Coliseum.

What is it Aristotle said? 'Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.' Yes. Populism is becoming popular in America—an old doctrine, though its adherents invariably think it is a new one, age after age.

she didn't want to take care of a husband in his old age, and the new man was younger than I. Just as important, he played better for the folks back home.

the first two years of a dog's life equal twenty-four years in human years, and then each subsequent year of the dog's life equals four years for the human.