Age Quote by Alice James Download Open image “It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!” — Alice James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Comic Ninety Oneself
People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh! — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. — Alice James Copy Share Image
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. — Alice James Copy Share Image
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the… — Alice James Copy Share Image
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able… — Alice James Copy Share Image
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. — Alice James Copy Share Image
“The paralytic on his couch can have if he wants them wider experiences than Stanley slaughtering the savages, the two roomed cottage may enclose… — Alice James Copy Share Image
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer… — Alice James Copy Share Image
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four… — Alice James Copy Share Image
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. — Alice James Copy Share Image
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble… — Alice James Copy Share Image
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. — Alice James Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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