Age Quotes

Age refers to the whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive. It commonly describes the number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive, one of the stages of life, and the time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to a particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others, a great period in the history of the Earth, and a period of one hundred years; a century, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Age as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include the people who live during a particular period, a generation, a long time, a unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts, and the right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand, which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term.

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Photo of W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham

(1874-1965)

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Oscar Wilde

(1854-1900)

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Mark Twain

(1835-1910)