927 private quotes tagged age

“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” — Salvador Dali

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“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.” — Andre Maurois

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“Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.” — Mindy Kaling

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“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” — Anais Nin

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“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.” — Aphra Behn

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“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.” — Estelle Getty

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“There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.” — Christopher Walken

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“After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.” — Bette Midler

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“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.” — Doris Day

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“In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'” — Lady Gaga

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“I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.” — Ben Barnes

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“Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.” — Thomas Moore

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“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.” — George Orwell

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“Age considers youth ventures.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” — Victor Hugo

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“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.” — Edmund Burke

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