Quotes About Age

Officially the earliest age was eleven for officers' sons and thirteen for the rest, but no one took much notice of the regulation—seven-year-olds were not unknown.) Before

you cannot expect old heads on young shoulders;

none of the peevishness and ill-nature so usual in the elderly.

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.

Men pursue younger women for sport all the time—whenever they start feeling a little insecure. But when a woman does it, it's another thing altogether.

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

PLENTIETH. Franklin P. Adams's adjective of indefinite older age, as in: "He is about to celebrate his plentieth birthday.

Boy to his dying grampa: I am a century wide. I think that I have my literal age but am surrounded in a radius of years. I think that these years of days, this near century of years, is a gift from you.

T-shirt with the saying "I May Be Old, but I Got to See All the Cool Bands.

You're never too old to be young.

What a lot you know.' I laughed and said it was one of the few advantages of old age, to be a repository of bits and pieces of casual information that sometimes come in useful. But she said she didn't really mean that, she meant know as distinct from remember.

The set of assumptions, prejudices, and mind-sets that structured and limited the thought of any particular age was referred to by Foucault as an episteme. This word derives from the same ancient Greek root as the branch of philosophy known as epistemology

I turned seventy in the Kalahari Desert and defended myself against oafs in the stink and misery of northern Angola. All these trips, ten of them, became books.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

Age only slows down those who never had the courage to walk at their own pace..

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

After a certain age, we put on a mask of confidence and certainty. In time, that mask gets stuck to our face and we can't remove it. As children, we learn that if we cry we'll receive affection, that

Quiza el amor no envejece antes de tiempo, y nos vuelve jovenes cuando pasa la juventud.

Perhaps love makes us old before our time - or young , if youth has passed

I'm off in search of adventure,even though i am sixty fve and fully aware of all the limitations that age can bring....

It is sweet to be loved, but to be able to love is to possess the life force. I love you. Therefore I am strong. Whatever my age, I am sustained by my own power to love.

For the soul of man is born fresh in every child, and there is an age in every creature, unless he is debased too young, when for a time he sees clearly the difference between truth and falsehood, and hypocrisy infuriates him. He cannot forgive those who should be true and instead are liars. This fury, I believe, is the first cause for revolutions throughout history.

But the boy only muttered bitterly, You do not understand—you are too old—you understand nothing.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.