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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Quote by Tom Stoppard about age, olderness

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age...

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Quote by Tom Stoppard about opinion, history, age, olderness, music

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

Quote by Jane Elliot about age, olderness, contentment

All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about olderness, age, old

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy...

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Quote by André Maurois about olderness, habits, bad luck, old, people, bad, time

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Quote by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec about olderness, youth, gifts, age, art, magic, nature, work

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau about olderness, enthusiasm, old

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There...

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Quote by Victor Hugo about olderness, grace, happiness, age, old

“You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You refuse...

Quote by Martin Luther King Jr. about fight, contentment, old, olderness, principle, chance, home, house, death, spirit

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two...

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Quote by Audrey Hepburn about help, contentment

Love her as in childhoodThrough feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s loveTill she’s buried beneath the clay. A mother's love is a blessingNo matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone

Quote by Francis McCourt about mother, love, childhood, contentment, old, olderness

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to...

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Quote by Francis Bacon about age, olderness, old, wine, drinking, things

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely...

Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt about age, olderness, youth, life

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Quote by Bruce Lee about love, friendship, beginning, light, fire, fire brigade

I wonder what could have changedIn meAnd in my faith, Of which I know I've changed nothing, Not even my apprentice pride, Which I find it todayIn those volumeWhere I've wrote only jokesFearing the old age!

Quote by Ion Minulescu about poetry, olderness, proudness, miracle, faith, age, old, nothing

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the...

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

Quote by James Fenimore Cooper about advice, gifts, old, olderness

Never, until now, in old age, the thingshappenedas I wanted. Always something hadoccurredthat deviated my path. I enrolled in high school because I wanted to attend the faculty of Arts in Baia Mare, but exactly in the year when I had to sustain...

Quote by Augustin Buzura about destiny, school, tests, olderness, art, writers, age, old, being

Forgetting is taught by the most experienced professor, ...

Forgetting is taught by the most experienced professor, the old man!

Quote by Maria Pal about forgetness, old, olderness, man

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I...

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about spring

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