Age Quote by Winifred Holtby Download Open image “Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?” — Winifred Holtby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Burden Finals Old age Time Treachery Young
“Age was no guide then, nor is it now. The old and the young defy their endings, while others go too soon. Neither is… — Conn Iggulden Copy Share Image
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“What seems strained - a mere triumph of perverse ingenuity - to one age, seems plain and obvious to another, so that our ancestors… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains. — Robert Collyer Copy Share Image
When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Obviously. It seems to be in the nature of adulthood that we venerate the past, grieve its obsolescence, and even live there in the… — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You are surprised that the world is losing its grip, that the world is grown old? Think of a man: he is born, he… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Getting older when you’re a grown-up is not as much fun as when you’re a kid. No one gives you interesting presents, only books,… — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort… — Winifred Holtby 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
