We are none of us infallible — not even the youngest of us. —W.H. Thompson More about this quote Tags: knowledge error age fallibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “age” Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. —P.G. Wodehouse More about this quote Tags: maturity age immaturity adulthood mid-life crisis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: wisdom advice age old age mischief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: respect age belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Tags: age effort menopause womanhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. —Cyril Connolly More about this quote Tags: kindness writing age nice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. —P.G. Wodehouse More about this quote Tags: maturity age immaturity adulthood mid-life crisis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: wisdom advice age old age mischief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: respect age belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Tags: age effort menopause womanhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. —Cyril Connolly More about this quote Tags: kindness writing age nice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email