Age Quotes

I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy.

Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, television series

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.

James Rippe, M. D.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Pearl Buck

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

George Santayana

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

The great tragedy of science - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

T. H. Buxley

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

Abbe Guillaume Raynal

To me - Old age is always ten years older than I am.

Andre Bernard Buruch

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.

George Bernard Shaw

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Henry Louis Mencken

God pays, but not weekly wages.

Polish Prove

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Sri da Avabhas

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Ansel Adams

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Samuel Johnson

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Robert Elwood Bly

Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

Henry Louis Mencken

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Mark Twain

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Unknown

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?

The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

Billie Burke

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.

Art Linklette

The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.

John Sloan Dickey

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

J. B. Priestley

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

J. Martin Kohe

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

Henry Ford, 1934