927 private quotes tagged age

“If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.”— Cate Blanchett

“There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.”— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.”— Robertson Davies

“Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.”— Bennett Cerf

“I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.”— Nadia Comaneci

“In my old age, I'll be in L.A.”— David Hockney

“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”— Pearl S. Buck

“The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.”— Havelock Ellis

“Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.”— Ogden Nash

“My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.”— Amy Winehouse

“At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.”— Daniel Day-Lewis

“The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.”— W. H. Auden

“I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.”— Russell Means

“In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.”— James Dyson

“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”— William Wordsworth

“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.”— Maurice Chevalier

“Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?”— King Abdullah II

“A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'”— Tommy Cooper

“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.”— Maurice Chevalier

“We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.”— Paul Ryan

“It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.”— Jean Claude Van Damme

“I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.”— Jamie Lee Curtis

“Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.”— Jennifer Aniston

“You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?”— Jennifer Aniston

“Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.”— Martha Gellhorn