Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 1369.
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Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
My ten year old
can do it and rhyme.
Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
he ought to know.
Go and find workSource: Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6 -
Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
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Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
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Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
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With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
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With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
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Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Source: Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (2012) 326 -
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
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