927 private quotes tagged age

“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.” — Denis Diderot

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“The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.” — W. H. Auden

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“At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.” — Amy Winehouse

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“To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.” — John Burroughs

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“I'm not afraid of aging.” — Shelley Duvall

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“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.” — Fred Allen

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“Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.” — Ogden Nash

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“The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.” — Havelock Ellis

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“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.” — Charles Dickens

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“I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.” — Liam Neeson

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“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.” — A. C. Benson

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“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.” — William Wordsworth

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“Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.” — Jenny McCarthy

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“In my old age, I'll be in L.A.” — David Hockney

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“To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.” — Hannah Arendt

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“Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.” — George MacDonald

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“Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.” — William Ralph Inge

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“Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.” — Phyllis Diller

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“I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.” — Noam Chomsky

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“I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.” — Nadia Comaneci

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“Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.” — Horace Walpole

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“Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.” — Bennett Cerf

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