927 private quotes tagged age

“I must confess, I was born at a very early age.” — Groucho Marx

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“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.” — Paulo Coelho

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“I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.” — Clint Eastwood

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“Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.” — Erma Bombeck

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“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.” — Margaret Mead

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“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.” — Judy Garland

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“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” — Pope John XXIII

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“I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.” — Elizabeth Taylor

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“Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.” — William James

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“Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” — Joan Collins

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“Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.” — Phyllis Diller

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“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.” — James Joyce

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“I don't care about age very much.” — Chinua Achebe

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“I feel more mature than most people my age.” — Leighton Meester

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“Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.” — Colin Powell

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“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.” — Helen Hayes

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“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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