927 private quotes tagged age

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

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“Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.” — Bill Vaughan

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“Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.” — Joseph Addison

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“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.” — Joseph Addison

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“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.” — Haruki Murakami

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“I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.” — Mick Jagger

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“I must confess, I was born at a very early age.” — Groucho Marx

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“There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.” — Fay Weldon

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“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.” — Virginia Woolf

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“I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.” — Henry Rollins

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“As men get older, the toys get more expensive.” — Marvin Davis

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“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.” — Lauren Bacall

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“Age is not important unless you're a cheese.” — Helen Hayes

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“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.” — Herman Cain

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“Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.” — Luis Bunuel

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“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.” — Jean Paul

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“I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.” — Charlie Sheen

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