Quotes about Age
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
by Muriel Spark (Novelist, English , born in 1918) keywords: age, days, decline, first, immortality, life, noble, old, prepared , reveals I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
by Liv Tyler (Actor , born in 1975) keywords: age, away, birthday, cried, enough, get, nice, old, such, things, thought, too , young Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
by Samuel Ullman (Poet, American , born in 1840) keywords: deserting, enthusiasm, give, grow, grows, ideals, living, may, merely, nobody, number, old, our, skin, soul, up, wrinkle, wrinkles , years Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
by Bill Vaughan (Journalist, American , born in 1915) keywords: adds, college, dollars, economists, education, his, income, lifetime, man, many, report, sending, son, spends, then, thousands , which Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
by Bill Vaughan (Journalist, American , born in 1915) keywords: buy, happiness, large, money, pay, problem, research, salaries, staff, study, will , won The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
by Bill Vaughan (Journalist, American , born in 1915) keywords: appliances, charcoal, cook, gas, home, indoors, makes, now, outdoors, possible, wonderful , world Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
by Bill Vaughan (Journalist, American , born in 1915) keywords: age, allowed, eve, forced, late, middle, new, stay, up, year , youth You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
by Judith Viorst (Author, American , born in 1932) keywords: age, children, deserve, earned, end, face, friends, health, must, old, put , up What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
by Voltaire (Writer, French , born in 1970) keywords: after, age, consider, energy, loss, most, persons, simply , virtue True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
by Kurt Vonnegut (Author, American , born in 1922) keywords: class, country, discover, high, morning, running, school, terror, true, up, wake , your The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
by Bob Wells (Athlete , born in 1966) keywords: age, body, bone, form, man, meet, old, opinions, pleasant, rare, say, tendency , whose
