A Quote by Karl Kraus

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

Karl Kraus

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Age Many Old Old Age Preserve Right Talents

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Karl Kraus
Austrian - Writer
April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

George MacDonald

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

Elrey Borge Jeppesen

the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.

Brad Warner

Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age.... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it ... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly.

Tracy Letts

Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new dark age" in which they are forced to live. "Back to the Bible," Old Lights shout; "back to the Koran," Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us.

Leonard Sweet

There are such pretty faces and so many more talents and people with more potential, but they never get their chance because they are not at the right place at the right time.

Vaani Kapoor

I have been called a man of many talents, but I like to keep a few of those talents hidden.

Andrew Flintoff

To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.

Francois Truffaut

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

Sophie Swetchine

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Leonardo da Vinci

The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.

Cassandra Clare

The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.

Gifford Pinchot

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

Erma Bombeck

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.