Age quotes

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

In youth we learn in age we understand.