927 private quotes tagged age

“Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.” — Ronald Reagan

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“I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.” — Wayne Gretzky

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“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.” — William Blake

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“I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.” — Bob Hope

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“Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Old age and the passage of time teach all things.” — Sophocles

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“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.” — Bertrand Russell

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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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“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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“No lie ever reaches old age.” — Sophocles

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“I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.” — Lillie Langtry

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“In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.” — Edmund Burke

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“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.” — Gore Vidal

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“Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“By Time and Age full many things are taught.” — Aeschylus

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“Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.” — William Feather

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“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.” — George Burns

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