927 private quotes tagged age

“As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.” — Frances Conroy

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“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.” — Jodi Picoult

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“Youth has no age.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.” — Aldous Huxley

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“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.” — Francis Bacon

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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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“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.” — Albert Einstein

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“Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.” — Franklin P. Adams

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“At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.” — Dan Stevens

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“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.” — William Feather

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“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.” — Plautus

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“The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.” — Mason Cooley

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“It is not well to make great changes in old age.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.” — Helen Keller

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“In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.” — Francis Schaeffer

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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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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.” — Aldous Huxley

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