927 private quotes tagged age

“I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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

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

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

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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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“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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“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.” — William Blake

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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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“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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“I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.” — Bob Hope

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“It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.” — André Gide

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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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“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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