Quotes 21 till 40 of 668.
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
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It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change.
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
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Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
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Youth is full of sport,
age's breath is short;
youth is nimble,
age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold,
age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame. -
''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''
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'Pitch Perfect 2' is about the Bellas and what happens to them as they get older. All your favorite characters are coming back. Chrissie Fit was great, and Hailee Steinfeld is such a pro - she fit right in. I had no idea she was 17! She's the most mature girl ever.
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...controls on behavior shift from the intermediate levels of human experience (social, emotional and religious) to the lower (military and political) or to the upper (ideological). They become the externalized controls of a mature society: weapons, bureaucracies, material rewards, or ideology.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
...the nineteenth century Age of Expansion... brought on an acceleration of the main focus of the activities of society... from the areas of internal controls to the areas of external controls....the increasing role of propaganda... helped create an impression of stability.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
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A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.
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