The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.
George Bernard ShawStichwörter: age revolution
I suppose that one’s years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character.
Peter KoevariStichwörter: age character year
At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.
Mark JenkinsStichwörter: age learning old young
Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.
Joe AbercrombieStichwörter: age nostalgia youth
I didn’t know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of age justly take woman of age to cure themselves of the diseases of youth.
Roman PayneStichwörter: age girls life-experience youth womanhood manhood roman-payne feminity life-phases
What is Time, O sister of similar features, that you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that secondhand overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!
Mervyn Peake(On having being just proposed to)
'Have you been thinking of this for long?' she managed jerkily, praying for the shock to recede so that she could behave a little more normally.
'Let's say it crept up on me,' he suggested lightly.
That didn't sound very romantic. Muggers crept up on you; so did old age.
Stichwörter: age love man woman romance marriage funny
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
Dan SimmonsStichwörter: politics age leadership zeitgeist
...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got used to the idea.
Emma StraubWhen she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: life age decisions regrets duties difficulties
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