927 private quotes tagged age

“Old age is the verdict of life.” — Amelia Barr

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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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“Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” — Margaret Atwood

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“I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.” — John Irving

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“It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.” — Joseph Addison

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“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.” — Margaret Mead

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“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.” — Don Marquis

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“Old age is no place for sissies.” — Bette Davis

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“Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.” — Russell Baker

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“Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.” — Erma Bombeck

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“Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.” — Sophia Bush

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“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.” — James Thurber

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“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” — Tom Stoppard

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“We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.” — Robert Mugabe

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“Age carries all things away, even the mind.” — Virgil

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“Age steals away all things, even the mind.” — Virgil

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“I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.” — Clint Eastwood

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“If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!” — Kevin Spacey

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“Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.” — Brigitte Bardot

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“It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.” — Eric Hoffer

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“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” — J. K. Rowling

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“Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.” — Paulo Coelho

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“No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.” — Katharine Graham

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“It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.” — Charles de Montesquieu

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“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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