Quotes of: Coming-of-age Keyword

Love is all you need in this world. Well, at least until you die of thirst or you freeze to death.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

Love makes the world go round. Too bad love doesn’t make the world go other shapes, like tetrahedron.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

The Shock of the New

What if experience is disappointment, and a human’s old age has not a sense and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment?

The Sunless Parlour

I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they call Bow Wow.

Slotback Rhapsody

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.

A Private History of Awe

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

The Problem of Pain

A word to the wise an't nesisary its the stupid ones who need the edvise.

The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Enjoy every second—even if at first you only win second. Keep competing until all your competition has died of old age and you are the winner by default.

Xazaqazax

The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.

The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

Pablo Casals

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Sigmund Freud

Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.

Lisa Scottoline

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

Marcel Achard

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

Martha Beck

Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.

Michael Leunig

When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

P. J. O'Rourke