927 private quotes tagged age

“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.” — Albert Camus

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“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.” — William Feather

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“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Age considers youth ventures.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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

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“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.” — Voltaire

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“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.” — Josh Billings

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“No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.” — Barbara de Angelis

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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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“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.” — Francis Bacon

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

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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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“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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“To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.” — Bertrand Russell

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“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.” — Francis Bacon

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“Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.” — Ronald Reagan

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“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” — Erich Fromm

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“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.” — Bob Hope

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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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“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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