Age

Famous quotes containing the word age:

    Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
    As ‘twere retailed to all posterity,
    Even to the general all-ending day.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)