927 private quotes tagged age

“This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.” — Stendhal

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“I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.” — Sting

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

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“Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.” — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.” — William Osler

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“Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.” — Walter Scott

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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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“The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.” — Eminem

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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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“You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.” — Harrison Ford

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

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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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“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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