"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."

Age, Books, Day, Now

13

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."

Exlpore more Age quotes

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Age, Society, Money, Class

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Age, Old, Youth

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Age, Impact, Success, Motivation

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Age, Technology

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Age, Love, Pleasure, Regret

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Age, Old, Years

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Age, Work, Old, Sorrow

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Age, Love, Man, Old

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Man

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

Age, People, Old, Silly

Explore more quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."

Originality

"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child."

Ability

"The ocean moans over dead men's bones."

Man

"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."

Man

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."

Age

"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."

Civilization

"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."

Imagination

"A man is known by the company his mind keeps."

Influence

"True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation."

Art

"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."

Age