Quotes of: Ages Keyword

Don’t wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.

I Speak of Ghana

Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity

Inside my soul a treasure is buried. The key is mine and only mine. How right you are, you drunken monster! I know: the truth is in the wine. ("The Unknown Lady")

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake water A woman's shriek assaults the ear While above, in the sky, inured to everything, The moon looks on with a mindless leer ("The Unknown Lady")

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

Beyond the lake the waning moon has slowed, And stands there like a window open wide Into a hushed and brightly lit abode Where something dreadful has occurred inside.

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

Tahtahta-ha-ha' clattered the wheels. A lamp outside the window nodded to him. Another. A third. The lamps ceased to wink. Night without winking clung to the windows. ("Adam")

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.

And the Mountains Echoed

A life is no less valuable or beloved if one lives in an age of decline, than in an age of progress.

The Last Myth: What the Rise of Apocalyptic Thinking Tells Us about America

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.

Laches

Unsettling because it reveals some possible branch of evolution in which sex organs will no longer exist. The bots won’t need them, and perhaps without them, the entire concept of gender will disappear.

Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

I’ll make birthday to you like turkey on wheat. Hold the mayonnaise—and hold me tightly. My love candle burns bright for you like a black hole.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

Francis Bacon has the most delicious last name ever, followed closely by Johnny Scrambledeggs. I make love like those two guys make breakfast out of family reunions.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

Nine times out of ten I left one out. But the one I leave out is never love. I always put love in—even when I put it in your butt.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

I shaved my pubic hair, glued it on a wig, and declared it art. No museum was willing to exhibit it. I should have sprinkled cheddar cheese on top and called it An Ode To Love.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

I can throw an orange like a baseball, but I can't eat a baseball like an orange. It's like that with love too, only with less velocity and fruiticism.


Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

I’m unreliable, admittedly, so you can’t believe me when I say I’m unreliable. I’m also in love, so that may contribute to my unreliability.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

I love with the heart of two men. Well, I would, if that damned neurosurgeon would go ahead and replace my left brain with the heart of a midget.


Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

Women, who understands them? Not men—and certainly not women. Perhaps only cats do. But who understands cats? Perhaps only Orafoura, the last remaining Cupid and sole savior of earthly love.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.