927 private quotes tagged age

“Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.” — Jodi Picoult

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“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.” — Karl Marx

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“As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.” — Frances Conroy

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“Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Youth has no age.” — Pablo Picasso

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“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.” — Ernest Hemingway

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

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“Age, like distance lends a double charm.” — Oliver Herford

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“Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.” — Albert Einstein

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“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.” — Dan Stevens

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“Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.” — Franklin P. Adams

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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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“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.” — William Feather

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“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.” — Helen Keller

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“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.” — Plautus

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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.” — Mason Cooley

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“It is not well to make great changes in old age.” — Charles Spurgeon

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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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