927 private quotes tagged age

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.” — Aldous Huxley

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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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“Age merely shows what children we remain.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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“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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“Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.” — Julia Roberts

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“How young can you die of old age?” — Steven Wright

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“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.” — Marshall McLuhan

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

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

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

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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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