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

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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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“The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.” — Dave Barry

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

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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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