Age Quote by George Herbert Download Open image “When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]” — George Herbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Death Sports
Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Sports is like a war without the killing. Sports is like a war without the killing. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Sport is quite a simple thing. It is play, and in play, people of all ages find the chance to engage their most profound… — Timothy Shriver Copy Share Image
When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating… — Yuvraj Singh Copy Share Image
“To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of all.” — Ann Lamott Copy Share Image
“To die of old age...is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death. It is the last and extremist kind of dying. It encourages people to… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
By all means use some time to be alone, salute thyself, see what thy soul doth wear. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). — George Herbert 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