927 private quotes tagged age

“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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“If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.” — Pat Robertson

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.” — Dave Barry

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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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