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Letter "A" » Age
«Growing Old is Mandatory - Growing Up Is Optional»
«Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff»
Author: Harold Nicolson
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Age,
Schools
| Keywords:
apt, flatulence, forty-nine, inclined, puff, puffed, puffing, puffs, schoolmaster, schoolmasters, swallow
«Few people know how to be old.»
«Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times»
Author: Ben Jonson
(Dramatist, Poet)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
illustrate, illustrated, illustrates, illustrating, planets, They Live, The Planets, The Times, wherein
«Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form»
«For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.»
Author: The Talmud
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
harvest, harvested, harvesting, harvests, old age, season, The Harvest, unlearned, unlearning, unlearns, winter, wintered, winters
«For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?»
«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.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Age,
Youth
| Keywords:
dress, evening, evening dress, evening star, fades, fading away, filled, invisible, less than, twilight, youth
«Give me a young man in whom there is some- thing of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.»
«Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
40th birthday,
Age,
Youth
| Keywords:
forty
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