927 private quotes tagged age

“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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“You should not consider a man's age but his acts.” — 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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“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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“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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“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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“How young can you die of old age?” — Steven Wright

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“No lie ever reaches old age.” — Sophocles

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

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

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

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

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“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.” — Marshall McLuhan

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