Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 1369.
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A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.
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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
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Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
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Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Philanthropist: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
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