Quotes with age

  • The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
  • I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
  • Judges don't age. Time decorates them.
  • Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
  • Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
  • If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
  • If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
  • To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
  • My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
  • When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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  • Aristotle Education is the best provision for old age.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Lydia M. Child 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.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Anais Nin Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Maggie Kuhn Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • Maggie Kuhn Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Lawana Blackwell Age is no guarantee of maturity.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Groucho Marx Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Paul Klee Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Jonathan Swift If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Peter Cochrane Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
    Peter Cochrane
     
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  • Joseph Addison It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph Addison It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Barbara Hershey It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Graham Greene Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Charles Simmons Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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