927 private quotes tagged age

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

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

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

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“Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.” — 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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“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“No lie ever reaches old age.” — Sophocles

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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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“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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“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 a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.” — Lillie Langtry

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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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