927 private quotes tagged age

“I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.” — George Burns

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“I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.” — George Burns

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“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Age merely shows what children we remain.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” — Victor Hugo

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“All diseases run into one, old age.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.” — William Feather

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“Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.” — Michelangelo

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“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” — Albert Einstein

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“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” — Pope John XXIII

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“I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.” — Judy Garland

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“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.” — Beverly Sills

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“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“We pay when old for the excesses of youth.” — J. B. Priestley

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“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.” — Euripides

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“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.” — Virginia Woolf

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“I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.” — Fidel Castro

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“It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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