Mark Twain Quotes, People Quotes, Age Quotes

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

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And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

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But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

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

Our relationship with alcohol is a hologram for how human beings relate to the natural world. When you get to that level of brown liquor - an age distillate of a fermented thing, grain that we learned how to plant and make grow - it is in some ways the best expression of what humans are able to do. Nobody else can make that! And it's delicious.

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Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

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

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Light Quotes , Age Quotes

Nature abhors the old.

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(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

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The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

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I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Age Quotes , May Quotes

We all have souls of different ages

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Men Quotes , Age Quotes

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

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