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Letter "A" » aged
«And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom.»
Author: Doris Lessing
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aged, anonymous, expecting, middle-aged, notices
«He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.»
«As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
aged, candle, holy, holy place, Holy Places, white, whited, whiter, whiting
«Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aged, boys, Boys Will Be Boys, middle-aged, middle-aged man
«A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.»
«But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: / That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.»
«A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
aged, arrested, arrested development, cocoon, cocoons, continuing, convention, middle-aged, middle-aged man, muffle, muffled, muffling, on the contrary
«Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.»
«For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, - believe the aged friend - Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love»
«Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Confidence,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
aged, bosom
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