927 private quotes tagged age

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“Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.”— Albert Einstein
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“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”— George Burns
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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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“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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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“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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“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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“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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“Age considers youth ventures.”— Rabindranath Tagore
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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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“I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.”— George Burns
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“I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.”— George Burns