“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”
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“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.”
“Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.”
“I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.”
“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.”
“My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.”
“From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.”
“I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.”
“O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.”
“Age does not matter if the matter does not age.”
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”
“Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.”
“Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.”
“One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.”
“In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.”
“I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.”
“A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.”
“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.”
“There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.”
“Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?”
“Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.”
“'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.”
“English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.”
“Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.”