Quote by Hervey Allen

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keepi

Summary

This quote suggests that middle-aged individuals, who are typically in their 40s and 50s, are the only ones who fully possess and use all five of their senses while also maintaining their mental sharpness. It implies that younger people may be more prone to impulsive or irrational behavior due to their senses being more dominant, and older individuals may experience a decline in their sensory and cognitive abilities. The middle-aged stage is portrayed as a time of balance and clarity, where a person's senses and wits are aligned and in harmony.

Topics

Maturity

By Hervey Allen

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know se

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Thomas Alva Edison

Results

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Morals

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Science

We are constantly being surprised that people did things wel

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. We are constantly remarking on the fact that things are done well by people other than ourselves. The Japanese are a remarkable little people, we say, as if we were doing them a favor. He is an Arab, but you ought to hear him play the zither. Why but?

Robert Benchley, Isn't It Remark

Attitude

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the mane

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Artistthe

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangibl

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

Love

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your sh

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

Steven Morrissey

Age

Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where

Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is e

Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

Laurence Housman

Trust

I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in rel

I never consider a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

Teacher

Manusia tidak akan dapat menuai cinta sampai dia merasakan p

Manusia tidak akan dapat menuai cinta sampai dia merasakan perpisahan yang menyedihkan, dan yang mampu membuka pikirannya, merasakan kesabaran yang pahit dan kesulitan yang menyedihkan

Love Life Lessons