927 private quotes tagged age

“In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.” — Knut Hamsun

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“Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!” — Pierre Corneille

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“There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.” — Susan Anton

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“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.” — Muriel Spark

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“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.” — Colleen McCullough

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“The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.” — Hume Cronyn

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“Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.” — Ira Gershwin

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“The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.” — Bob Wells

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“There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.” — Helen Rowland

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“I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.” — William Ernest Hocking

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“Old age is a shipwreck.” — Charles de Gaulle

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

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

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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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“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.” — Eminem

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“I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.” — Charlie Sheen

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“Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.” — Luis Bunuel

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“Age is not important unless you're a cheese.” — Helen Hayes

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“I must confess, I was born at a very early age.” — Groucho Marx

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“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.” — Paulo Coelho

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“I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.” — Clint Eastwood

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“Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.” — Erma Bombeck

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