927 private quotes tagged age

“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.” — Doris Day

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

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“The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.” — Lord Chesterfield

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

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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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“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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