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Age

«We grow too soon old and too late smart»
Author: Dutch Proverb | About: Age | Keywords: smart, Too late, too soon
«When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.»
Author: Pearl Bailey (Entertainer) | About: Age | Keywords: achievements, notions, sillier, silliest
«When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.»
Author: Shirley Temple (Actress, Diplomat) | About: Age | Keywords: oldest, younger
«We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.»
«When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.»
Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo | About: Age, Realism | Keywords: idealistic, older, realistic
«What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew»
«Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old»
Author: Washington Irving (Writer) | About: Age, Elderly | Keywords: compliment
«When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Age, Youth | Keywords: comfortably, procuring, slavishly, whereby
«When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.»
«When the age is in, the wit is out»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Age | Keywords: The Age