927 private quotes tagged age

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” — Anais Nin

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“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.” — Aphra Behn

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“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.” — William Hazlitt

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

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“There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.” — Christopher Walken

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

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“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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“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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“Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Age considers youth ventures.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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

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“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” — Victor Hugo

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“Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.” — Richard Dawkins

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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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“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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“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.” — George Bernard Shaw

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