Age Quotes - Page 27

• Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

  Ann Brashares

  Character, Fleeting, Spots

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Oct 06, 2011

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• I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it his own way and then we'd have something to read in our old age.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Writing, Joy

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• The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Maturity, Men, Eight

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.47, 谷月社

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• I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

  Dana Carvey

  Years, Levels, Four

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• A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Beautiful, Youth

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

  Barbara Hershey

  Fun, Pain, Giving

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• From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

  Steve Buyer

  Depression, Country, Struggle

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• Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

  Saddam Hussein

  Suicide, Baghdad, Hussein

  2003 Speech on the anniversary of the Gulf War, 17 Jan.

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• Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

  Albert Camus

  Challenges, Peculiar, Purpose

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

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• Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.

  Tim Ferriss

  Learning, Mind, Doe

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• December finds himself again a child
  Even as he undergoes his age.
  Cold and early darkness now descends,
  Embracing sanctuaries of delight.
  More and more he stares into the night,
  Becoming less and less concerned with ends,
  Emblem of the innocent as sage
  Restored to wonder by what he must yield.

  Nick Gordon

  Children, Night, Yield

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• POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific-and without science we are as the snakes and toads.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Drinking, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2484, Delphi Classics

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• What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body.

  Hans Selye

  Health, Thinking, Medicine

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• A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."

  James Keller

  Music, Writing, Men

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• To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Gun, Hollywood Films

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is room for millions of persons. There is ample ground for introducing persons, but each one of them must be an illustration of the principles. We must not forget that. These principles of our religion are all safe, and it should be the life-work of everyone of us to keep then safe, and to keep them free from the accumulating dirt and dust of ages.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Illustration, Dust, Principles

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.213, editionNEXT.com

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• We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Mother, Bills, Earth

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• A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own.

  Ernest Howard Crosby

  Men, Progress, World

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• By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

  Mark Twain

  Men, World, Recognition

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.135, Xist Publishing

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• I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Life, Gratitude, Regret

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• I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.

  Nigel Melville

  Years, Rugby, Injury

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• Time is of the essence,
  The crowd and players
  Are the same age always,
  But the man in the stand,
  Is older every season.

  Rolfe Humphries

  Player, Men, Essence

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• The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout. The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport - there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age - stirred his blood.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Sports, Workout, Moving

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• Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Technology, Industrialization, Revolution

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old.

  Terry McMillan

  Mirrors, Long, One Day

  Terry McMillan (2006). “Waiting to Exhale”, p.15, Penguin

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