927 private quotes tagged age

“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.” — Virginia Woolf

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“I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.” — Fidel Castro

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“It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.” — Albert Ellis

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“Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” — Margaret Atwood

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“I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.” — John Irving

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“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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“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.” — Lois Wyse

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“Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.” — Jeff Bridges

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“Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?” — Dennis Prager

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“I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.” — Paul Cezanne

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“People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.” — Jean Paul

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“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.” — Jonathan Swift

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“And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.” — Lev Grossman

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“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.” — Jonathan Swift

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“Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.” — Jonathan Swift

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“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.” — Paul Cezanne

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“Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.” — Hedy Lamarr

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“My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.” — Rita Rudner

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“O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.” — Tom Stoppard

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“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.” — Theodor Adorno

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