927 private quotes tagged age

“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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“Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.” — Washington Irving

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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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“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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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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“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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“I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.” — James Broughton

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

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

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

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

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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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