age Quotes

“Marriage is a young man's disaster and an old man's comfort.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

topic:man marriage age

“That'll be a comfort, one way—never to be an old woman—but then—always to have lessons to learn!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:learning age comfort

“There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

topic:youth age

“I don’t think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

topic:experience age equality

“But old fools is the biggest fools there is.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:age

“The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

topic:men age

“Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.”

― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

topic:marriage youth age

“The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

topic:age

“So many old and lovely things are stored in the world’s attic, because we don’t want them around us and we don’t dare throw them out.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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