Age Quotes - Page 38

• Today we are on the brink of another extraordinary revolution. The Information Age is already over and an exciting new epoch is taking its place. Remember, the key point is this: When wealth is derived from a new source - say information rather than industry - a new economic era is born.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Keys, Information, Today

  Patricia Aburdene (2005). “Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.

  Sterling W Sill

  Attitude, Faces, Form

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• Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Tasks, May

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• Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

  John Dryden

  Nature, Two, Majesty

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.139

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• 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.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Sweet, Men

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• When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.

  Elliot Perlman

  Contentment, Trying, Reckless

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• The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Dwelling, House, Medieval

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.

  David Elkind

  Children, Independent, Self

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• Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Maturity, Liquid

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.91, Knopf

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• I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that some information which is sensitive, which does affect the security of individuals and relationships, deserves to be protected and we will continue to take necessary steps to do so.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Flying, Doe

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• When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.

  Marcel Proust

  Children, Soul, Asking

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Buried, Dies

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• It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning , witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Race, Years

  H. L. Mencken (2003). “The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.57, See Sharp Press

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• We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Data, Hype

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• Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

  Red Skelton

  Mind, Old Age

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• I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

  Goodman Ace

  Secret, Aging, Forget

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• How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

  Ovid

  Money, Thinking, Hands

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• Do not dismiss the words of the old;
  they possess wisdom,
  which comes only with age,
  and often speak of things
  that the young are too immature
  to understand.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Immature, Speak, Young

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• Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Amusement, Serious, Pleasure

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1888). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late.
  Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

  Milan Kundera

  Understanding, Too Late, Want

  "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Book by Milan Kundera, 1979.

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• Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Character, Perfection

  "Karl Lagerfeld Smells Like "Fresh, Ironed Linen"". Interview with Emily Dougherty, www.elle.com. March 11, 2014.

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• Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow

  Nas

  Giving, Grows

  Song: I Know I Can *Clean Version*, 2002

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• As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That's your clan. That's your family. That's your strength.

  Sheryl Crow

  Tribes, Share, Clans

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• Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Maturity, People, Grades

  Twitter post from May 06, 2016

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• My first Hip Hop concert was at the Apollo at the age of 12. Southpaw's father was interviewing Queen Latifah and Treach as well as many others. The place was so packed no one could move but I got to be backstage with the video equipment and so I saw the show from a great place.

  Immortal Technique

  Queens, Father, Moving

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