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“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”

“Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.”

Age Funny Time Grows Aging Gray Foxes

Book:The Autobiography, and Other Writings: With Selections from Poor Richard's Almanac and Papers Relating to the Junto

Source: The Autobiography, and Other Writings: With Selections from Poor Richard's Almanac and Papers Relating to the Junto

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

Life Book Age Time Progress Middle Burning Censorship Burned Middle Ages Repression Psychoanalysis

Book:Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)

Source: Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)

“Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has always been: life's most precious commodity. The only difference is that, finally, we know it.”

Knows Kind Age Time Differences Honesty Commodity Ruthless

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.”

Age Today Time Names Peace Cities Generations Changed Flower Masters Battle Peaceful Ruins Nothingness Wales Daisies Hyacinths Periwinkle

Author:Edgar Quinet

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.”

Thinking Ends Age Time Loneliness Aging Finals Genuine Being Alone Feeling Lonely Being Lonely Final Destination

Author:Edward Gibbon

“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”

“People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.”

People Giving Long Age Time Asks Ask Me

Book:The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual

Source: The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual

“At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.”

Men Age Time Dog Twenties Aging Thirty Fifty Forty Lions Sixty Seventies Eighty Apes Serpent Camels Peacock

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.”

Knows Done Age Time Water Hours Gone Salt

Book:The Infinite Plan: A Novel

Source: The Infinite Plan: A Novel

“The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.”

Men Life Age Success Time Secret Another Day Secret Of My Success

Author:Chuck Yeager

“Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?”

Age Young Time Finals Burden Old Age Treachery

Book:South Riding

Source: South Riding

“My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.”

Men Humans Children Age Time Change Race Lows Bored Human Race Boredom More Time Sections Threshold

Book:It's only me: pieces from a column

Source: It's only me: pieces from a column

“the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.”

Real Age Death Used Time Buddhism Right Now Concerned Old Age Used To Be Compare Description

Book:Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

Source: Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma