927 private quotes tagged age

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

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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 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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“Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.” — Alexander Hamilton

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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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“Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” — Joan Collins

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“Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.” — Phyllis Diller

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“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.” — James Joyce

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“I don't care about age very much.” — Chinua Achebe

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“I feel more mature than most people my age.” — Leighton Meester

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“Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.” — Colin Powell

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“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.” — Helen Hayes

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“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.” — Timothy Leary

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“I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.” — Billy Graham

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“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.” — Miguel de Unamuno

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“Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.” — Miriam Makeba

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“One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.” — Walter Scott

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“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.” — Charles Kingsley

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