927 private quotes tagged age

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

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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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“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.” — John F. Kennedy

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“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” — George Orwell

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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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“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.” — Lord Byron

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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 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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“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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“I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.” — Satchel Paige

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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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“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 and the passage of time teach all things.” — Sophocles

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“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.” — Samuel Johnson

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“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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“I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.” — Gore Vidal

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“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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