Quotes
Quotes about Age
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
In this country [England] it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
In a good old age.
Old and well stricken in age.
Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
The wages of sin is death.
Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.
The average reader does not want to get outside life, to view it detachedly and indifferently; he requires the illusion of being more deeply involved in it
The communication media inflate language because they dare not be honest and call a spade a spade
It is best to regard the (English) language as a growing corpus of words and structures which nobody can know entirely but upon which anyone can draw at any time - a sort of unlimited bank account.
To learn a language is not to memorise a vocabulary but to acquire a set of rules
A language may be termed a dialect that waves a national flag
Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallises lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.
Sex often makes a language a minefield
Nothing capable of a moral assessment inheres in a language; it remains neutral and innocuous.
This places what we must vaguely term slang into the right perspective - the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers, the acted upon, the used, the used up. It is demonic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight.
There is no limit to the modes in which language can be used to lie, obfuscate, worry, even kill.
The study of language may beget madness
