927 private quotes tagged age

“The golden age is before us, not behind us.” — William Shakespeare

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“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” — H. L. Mencken

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“It takes a long time to become young.” — Pablo Picasso

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“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.” — T. S. Eliot

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“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.” — Plato

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“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.” — William Shakespeare

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“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Old age is just a record of one's whole life.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.” — Dale Carnegie

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“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.” — Margaret Mead

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“The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.” — Cindy Crawford

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“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” — Stanislaw Lec

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“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” — Kurt Vonnegut

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“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.” — Ronald Reagan

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“He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.” — Voltaire

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“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.” — Confucius

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“Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.” — Carl Sandburg

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“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“Youth has no age.” — Pablo Picasso

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“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.” — Henry Miller

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