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Quotations by Subject: Age
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Showing quotations 61 to 83 of 83 quotations in our collections

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.: Pablo Casals (1876 - 1973), O Magazine, October 2003
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.: Pearl S. Buck, China, Past and Present, 1972
Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.: Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds, 1954
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Morals
As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
People age even when you're not looking.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Postive, 07-30-08
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), Crabbed Age and Youth, 1874
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.: Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.: Roger Allen
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be 'that stabbin' Dilbert guy.': Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Benefits of Getting Old, Dilbert Blog, 08-22-06
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...: Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
There is nothing better than birthday cake. It's like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young?: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 05-01-07
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943

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