927 private quotes tagged age

“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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“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.” — 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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“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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“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“All diseases run into one, old age.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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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“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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“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” — Albert Einstein

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“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.” — William James

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“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.” — Max Lerner

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“I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.” — John Irving

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“Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” — Margaret Atwood

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“I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.” — Albert Ellis

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“Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.” — Beverly Sills

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“It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.” — Fidel Castro

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