Age Quote by Herbert Gold Download Open image “Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.” — Herbert Gold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Aging Different Elderly Knows Old age Young
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
They always say 'youth is wasted on the young' - there's something to that. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do — French Proverb Copy Share Image
To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk show to wave his flag. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If you really… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong. — Herbert Gold 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