Age Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Character Energy Loss Virtue
Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades. — Onuh Justus Izuchukwu Copy Share Image
“Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
At 40, your body and your mind doesn't do the same thing as it used to do. — Jermaine O'Neal Copy Share Image
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire 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
