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Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.
Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.
They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
Robert De Niro is just evolved as a human being. He's a very kind guy. Age has been good for him, in terms of just, he's very kind.
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.
I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
One of the positives of getting older is that you forget your age. Then you find out that you're younger than you thought you were.
Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be demanded.
The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line . . .
You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?
It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.
Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they’re paying more in taxes.
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.
It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30, on account of your sister, brother in law and your bottom.
I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.
It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.
The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.
ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.
The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.
I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.
Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.
I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.
A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.
I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.
I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.
It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.
I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.
Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.
Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.
One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.
It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.