Quotes with age

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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alfredo La Mont Old Age: That period in life when we no longer care where our wife is going, as long as she doesn't want us to come along
    Reader's Digest, February 1992
    Alfredo La Mont
    American writer
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • B. B. King Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • C. K. Williams One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Aphra Behn One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Ezra Pound One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • J. B. Priestley One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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  • Danny Mcgoorty One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Oscar Wilde One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Arnold One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Evelyn Waugh Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Bruce Lipton Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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