“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
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“The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.”
“Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
“It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.”
“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.”
“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.”
“'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.”
“Love has no age, no limit and no death.”
“I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.”
“I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.”
“If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.”
“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.”
“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.”
“The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.”
“God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.”
“I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.”
“It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.”
“I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.”
“New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.”
“I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.”
“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.”
“At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.”
“Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.”