Quote Genre: Age

Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach – ‘In youth we learn; in age we…

‘In youth we learn; in age we understand.’

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Bob Dylan – ‘But I was so much older then…

‘But I was so much older then Im younger than that now.’

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Walter Elias Disney – ‘The more you like yourself t…

‘The more you like yourself the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique.’

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Clarence Seward Darrow – ‘At twenty a man is full of f…

‘At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world but he know he cant.’

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Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘All of us who are worth anyt…

‘All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth.’

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Cyril Connolly – ‘Always be nice to those youn…

‘Always be nice to those younger than you because they are the ones who will be writing about you.’

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Thomas Carlyle – ‘As I grow older I pay less a…

‘As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.’

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Thomas Sydenham – ‘A man is as old as his arter…

‘A man is as old as his arteries.’

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Reverend Sidney Strong – ‘A good old age becomes mello…

‘A good old age becomes mellow and ripe. There is less of irritability more of contentment. Children are a joy to a good old age. God is nearer.’

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson – ‘What a man knows at 50 that …

‘What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is for the most part incommunicable. The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas or forms of words but of people places … Continue reading →

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