927 private quotes tagged age

“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.” — T. S. Eliot

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“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.” — William Shakespeare

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“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“It takes a long time to become young.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Old age is just a record of one's whole life.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.” — Dale Carnegie

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“The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.” — Cindy Crawford

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“I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.” — Princess Diana

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“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.” — Margaret Mead

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“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” — Stanislaw Lec

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“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” — Kurt Vonnegut

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“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” — Sophia Loren

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“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.” — Ronald Reagan

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“He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.” — Voltaire

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“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.” — Confucius

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“Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Youth has no age.” — Pablo Picasso

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“I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.” — Carl Sandburg

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“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.” — Aldous Huxley

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“In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.” — Robert Frost

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“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.” — Muhammad Ali

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