Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. "

Related Quotes:

" Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old. "

" This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age. "

" So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age. "

" Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. "

Booth Tarkington

" After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths. "

" I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now. "

" Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. "

Michel de Montaigne

" I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50. "

" We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that. "

Guy Gavriel Kay

" Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. "

" In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. "

Marshall McLuhan

" I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict. "

" As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. "

" 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. "

" You should never reveal your true age. "

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

" If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. "

" Chaga mycelium is relatively easy to grow by using methods already practiced elsewhere in the mushroom industry. Its mycelium is initially an off-whitish color, deepening with age. "

" It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. "

Charles de Montesquieu

" If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. "

" What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. "

Robert Browning

" Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting. "

Chelsea Clinton

" I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab. "

" When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. "

" I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer. "

" Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. "

" Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal. "