927 private quotes tagged age

“The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.” — Orson Welles

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“Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.” — Steven Morrissey

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“Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.” — Bjork

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“We are always the same age inside.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.” — Washington Irving

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“The surest sign of age is loneliness.” — Annie Dillard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.” — George W. Bush

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“I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.” — Noel Coward

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“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.” — Elton John

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“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.” — Will Durant

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“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.” — Washington Irving

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“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.” — Andre Maurois

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“What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.” — Bono

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