Quotes about Age
The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
— Shane Claiborne
Knowledge comes naturally with studying, and with God's touch, instantly. Wisdom comes naturally with age, and with God's touch, immediately.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Gray hairs signify old age, not wisdom.Muscles signify strength, not health.Laughter signifies amusement, not joy.Weeping signifies pain, not weakness.Smiling signifies courteousness, not love.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Elders in the dark see better than children in the light.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.
— Marilyn Monroe
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
— Robert Frost
The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
— George Bernard Shaw
... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.
— Albert Einstein
She wore ear-rings, and a silver-green mermaid's dress. Lolloping on the waves and braiding her tresses she seemed, having that gift still; to be; to exist; to sum it all up in the moment as she passed; turned, caught her scarf in some other woman's dress, unhitched it, laughed, all with the most perfect ease and air of a creature floating in its element. But age had brushed her; even as a mermaid might behold in her glass the setting sun on some very clear evening over the waves.
— Virginia Woolf
He was to be the son of her old age; the limb of her infirmity; the oak tree on which she leant her degradation.
— Virginia Woolf