927 private quotes tagged age

“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.” — Bette Midler

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“The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.” — Mindy Kaling

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“New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.” — Jackson Pollock

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“Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.” — Estelle Getty

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“In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'” — Lady Gaga

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“Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.” — Thomas Moore

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“I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.” — Ben Barnes

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“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.” — George Orwell

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“Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.” — Edmund Burke

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“Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.” — Herman Melville

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“Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.” — E. B. White

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“Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.” — Lord Byron

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“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.” — E. B. White

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“Age considers youth ventures.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.” — Victor Hugo

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“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.” — Bertrand Russell

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“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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