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Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life. Plato
How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity. Barbara Pym
This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money. P. G. Wodehouse
Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack. Dr. Seuss
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. Colleen McCullough
Ernest Hemingway quote: "No one should be alone in their old age, he thought."
No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. Ernest Hemingway
... those people who believe in previous lives always think they were dukes or queens or something, ignoring the fact that most people back then spent their whole lives up to their knees in shit before dying of toothless old age at thirty. Tad Williams
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "It was an age of Empires. So is this one, not all that well..."
It was an age of Empires. So is this one, not all that well disguised. Kurt Vonnegut
Five weeks in the hospital fled as if down a sinkhole into the middle of the earth. ... Can waiting by definition slow, flash by? ... Time becomes even more elastic than usual--minutes can stretch for ages and days suddenly snap together. [p. 97] Diane Ackerman
what a book this is, and what lessons there are in it! What a book is Holy Scripture, what a miracle and what a strength is given to man with it! Like a sculpture composed of the world, of man and human characters, and it has all been named and explained for the ages, ever more. And how many mysteries are resolved and revealed..." (Concerning Holy Scripture in the Life of Fr. Zosima) Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze. Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet. Age:..."
Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze. Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet. Age: five thousand three hundred days. Vladimir Nabokov
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!"
The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
But there were also times when she cried out in the darkness biting her lips - cried out against the substance of her age: for it was now that she should be young; now above all other times, with the wisdom in her, the wisdom that was frittered away in her 'teens', set aside in her twenties, now, lying there, palpable and with forty summers gone. She clenched her hands together. What good was wisdom; what good was anything when the fawn is fled from the grove? Mervyn Peake
Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. Robert E. Howard
Harriet Beecher Stowe quote: "Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in..."
Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us... not the person that we are, But the angel we may be. Harriet Beecher Stowe

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