Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. "

Related Quotes:

" Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. "

" No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. "

" Age is not our fault. "

Goenawan Mohamad

" There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. "

" Adults are obsolete children. "

" All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. "

" Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter. "

" He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. "

" Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. "

Donald G. Mitchell

" The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. "

" We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones. "

" I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.' "

" There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. "

" Life must be lived as play. "

" Makeup can make a woman look more beautiful at every age. "

" From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that. "

David Lindsay-Abaire

" The age of the Earth makes no difference with respect to Christ's atoning sacrifice for humanity's sin or to the nature and character of God, Earth's age has no bearing on any of the historic Christian doctrines. No mention of Earth's age appears in even the most detailed creedal statements. "

" Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. "

Geoffrey Chaucer

" In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. "

Richard M. Nixon

" As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher. "

" The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. "

" Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. "

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

" The new age of terrorism isn't on the battlefield: it's in your own backyard. Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination. "

" Necessity... the mother of invention. "

" High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. "

" My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table. "

" Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. "

" I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself at age 19. The letter included my goals and dreams for my life, and even then, I was writing about the management company that I built today. "