927 private quotes tagged age

“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” — Louis Kronenberger

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“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.” — Emily Dickinson

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“At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” — Jack Benny

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“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'” — Claude Pepper

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“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.” — Billy Joel

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“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.” — Peace Pilgrim

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“A woman has the age she deserves.” — Coco Chanel

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“If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.” — B. F. Skinner

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“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.” — Mary Schmich

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“Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.” — John Ruskin

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“To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.” — John Burroughs

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“I'm not afraid of aging.” — Shelley Duvall

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“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.” — Havelock Ellis

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“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.” — Charles Dickens

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“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.” — William Wordsworth

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“In my old age, I'll be in L.A.” — David Hockney

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“Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.” — Phyllis Diller

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“I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.” — Nadia Comaneci

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