927 private quotes tagged age

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

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

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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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“In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.” — Edmund Burke

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“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.” — Gore Vidal

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“Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.” — Bertrand Russell

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“No lie ever reaches old age.” — Sophocles

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“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“By Time and Age full many things are taught.” — Aeschylus

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“The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.” — Logan P. Smith

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“Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.” — William Feather

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“Education is the best provision for old age.” — Aristotle

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“I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.” — George Burns

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“I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.” — George Burns

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“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.” — Stephen Fry

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“The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.” — John W. Gardner

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“I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.” — George Burns

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“Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.” — Mason Cooley

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“Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.” — George Burns

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