Friday 8 April 2011

Age Quotes



Grief is half of old age.
Imam Ali (A.S)



Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mohandas Gandhi

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