927 private quotes tagged age

“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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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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“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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“I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.” — Elizabeth Taylor

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“We pay when old for the excesses of youth.” — J. B. Priestley

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“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.” — Virginia Woolf

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“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” — Pope John XXIII

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“I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.” — Judy Garland

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“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.” — James Broughton

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“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Old age is the verdict of life.” — Amelia Barr

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“It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.” — Joseph Addison

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“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.” — Don Marquis

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“Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.” — Russell Baker

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“Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.” — Sophia Bush

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“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.” — James Thurber

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“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” — Tom Stoppard

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“We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.” — Robert Mugabe

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“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.” — Margaret Mead

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“Age carries all things away, even the mind.” — Virgil

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