Age Quotes

Life is swept along, next-to-nothing its span. For one swept to old age no shelters exist. Perceiving this danger in death, one should drop the world's bait and look for peace.

To live in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible. We must free ourselves from life, from all possible life.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Age considers; youth ventures.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

My father, at the Death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up literally without education.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.

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

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.