927 private quotes tagged age

“In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.” — Logan P. Smith

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“Education is the best provision for old age.” — Aristotle

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“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.” — Stephen Fry

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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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“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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“By Time and Age full many things are taught.” — Aeschylus

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

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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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“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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“I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.” — Elizabeth Taylor

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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 had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.” — Albert Ellis

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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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