927 private quotes tagged age

“In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.” — Timothy Leary

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“I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.” — Billy Graham

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“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.” — Miguel de Unamuno

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“Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.” — Miriam Makeba

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“One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.” — Walter Scott

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“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.” — Charles Kingsley

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“The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.” — Orson Welles

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“Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.” — Steven Morrissey

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“Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.” — Bjork

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“We are always the same age inside.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.” — Washington Irving

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“The surest sign of age is loneliness.” — Annie Dillard

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

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

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“Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.” — John Ruskin

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“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.” — Mary Schmich

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“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.” — Peace Pilgrim

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“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.” — Billy Joel

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“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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“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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“I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.” — George W. Bush

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