Quotes 641 till 660 of 833.
-
The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
-
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
-
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
-
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
-
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
-
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
-
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
-
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
-
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
-
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
-
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
-
The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
-
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
-
Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
-
Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
-
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
-
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
Dracula Dracula (2007 edition), Book Jungle -
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
-
There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
All coming-of-age famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 33)
