Age Quotes - Page 39

• Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Tasks, May

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• Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Stories, Able, Storytelling

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• Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

  John Dryden

  Nature, Two, Majesty

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.139

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• The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Sweet, Men

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• When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.

  Elliot Perlman

  Contentment, Trying, Reckless

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• Age cannot limit him, nor use exhaust his infinite mendacity.

  Joseph Furphy

  Use, Limits, Infinite

  Joseph Furphy (2001). “The Buln-Buln and the Brolga”

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• I don't love it. I write better than I used to write, I think better than I used to think, and I've got enough experience to balance things up. But I don't like the physical side of getting older and I don't like forgetting things. If I had a choice, I'd take Peter Pan pills and stay young forever.

  Ray Martin

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

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• [T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.

  Pope Francis

  Family, Home, People

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• There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Evil

  William Shakespeare (1790*). “The Beauties of Shakespeare; Selected from His Works. To which are Added, the Principal Scenes in the Same Author. The Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged”, p.204

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• The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Dwelling, House, Medieval

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.

  David Elkind

  Children, Independent, Self

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• Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Maturity, Liquid

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.91, Knopf

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• I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that some information which is sensitive, which does affect the security of individuals and relationships, deserves to be protected and we will continue to take necessary steps to do so.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Flying, Doe

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• Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.

  Jason Silva

  Scarcity, Pay, Abundance

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• When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.

  Marcel Proust

  Children, Soul, Asking

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Buried, Dies

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• This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

  Sharon Stone

  Beautiful, Ideas, Want

  "Sharon Stone Tells Shape She Doesn’t Want To Be ‘An Ageless Beauty,’ Is Still One Anyway" By Jamie Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2014.

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• I realized two things from an early age - I was insane and had some kind of comedic thing going on. My brain was wired to think about things in terms of how funny they were.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Thinking, Two, Brain

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• It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning , witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Race, Years

  H. L. Mencken (2003). “The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.57, See Sharp Press

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• Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Lying, Mind

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• We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Data, Hype

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• I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

  Alexis Bledel

  New York, Agency, One Day

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• I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

  Goodman Ace

  Secret, Aging, Forget

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• How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

  Ovid

  Money, Thinking, Hands

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• Do not dismiss the words of the old;
  they possess wisdom,
  which comes only with age,
  and often speak of things
  that the young are too immature
  to understand.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Immature, Speak, Young

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