927 private quotes tagged age

“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” — Betty Friedan

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“What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.” — Bono

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“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.” — Andre Maurois

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“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

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“A tart 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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“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.” — Will Durant

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“And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.” — Elton John

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“Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” — Louis Kronenberger

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“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.” — Noel Coward

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“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.” — George W. Bush

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“Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'” — Claude Pepper

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“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” — Jack Benny

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“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.” — B. F. Skinner

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“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.” — Andre Maurois

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“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.” — Emily Dickinson

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“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.” — Billy Joel

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“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.” — Peace Pilgrim

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