927 private quotes tagged age

“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.” — Walter Scott

0 favs

“Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

0 favs

“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.” — William Osler

0 favs

“This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.” — Stendhal

0 favs

“In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.” — Herman Cain

0 favs

“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.” — W. Somerset Maugham

0 favs

“I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.” — Henry Rollins

0 favs

“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.” — Virginia Woolf

0 favs

“I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.” — Mick Jagger

0 favs

“You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.” — Haruki Murakami

0 favs

“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.” — Joseph Addison

0 favs

“Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.” — Joseph Addison

0 favs

“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

0 favs

“It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.” — Charles de Montesquieu

0 favs

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” — J. K. Rowling

0 favs

“It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.” — Eric Hoffer

0 favs

“Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.” — Brigitte Bardot

0 favs

“Age steals away all things, even the mind.” — Virgil

0 favs

“Age carries all things away, even the mind.” — Virgil

0 favs

“We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.” — Robert Mugabe

0 favs

“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” — Tom Stoppard

0 favs

“Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.” — Sophia Bush

0 favs

“Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.” — Russell Baker

0 favs

“It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.” — Joseph Addison

0 favs

“Old age is the verdict of life.” — Amelia Barr

0 favs