927 private quotes tagged age

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.” — George Burns

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“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“How young can you die of old age?” — Steven Wright

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“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.” — William Feather

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“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.” — Aldous Huxley

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“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.” — Victor Hugo

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“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.” — Julia Roberts

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“It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.” — André Gide

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“If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.” — George Burns

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“Age merely shows what children we remain.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.” — Dave Barry

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“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.” — Thomas Carlyle

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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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“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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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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“Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.” — Herman Melville

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“The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.” — E. B. White

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“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.” — Josh Billings

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“Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.” — E. B. White

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“Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.” — Barbara de Angelis

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