Quotes with age

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  • George Orwell Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Albert Einstein Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carolina Herrera Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Ben Johnson Talking is the disease of age.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Walter Lippmann The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Joseph Addison Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • William Shakespeare Youth is full of sport,
    age's breath is short;
    youth is nimble,
    age is lame;
    Youth is hot and bold,
    age is weak and cold;
    Youth is wild, and age is tame.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lewis Carroll ''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...the nineteenth century Age of Expansion... brought on an acceleration of the main focus of the activities of society... from the areas of internal controls to the areas of external controls....the increasing role of propaganda... helped create an impression of stability.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Robert Frost A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Pindar A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Ezra Pound A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Wyndham Lewis A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Lord George Byron A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Cate Blanchett A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Lucille Ball A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • William Somerset Maugham A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
    inaugurele rede 14-8-1947
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Abdoulaye Wade A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
    Abdoulaye Wade
    Senegalese politician (1926 - )
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