Agatha Christie Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Age Quotes

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Age Quotes , Needs Quotes

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

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It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

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In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

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Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

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For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

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We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

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We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Years Quotes , Age Quotes

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Dust Quotes , Age Quotes

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , People Quotes , Age Quotes

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

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Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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