Quotes with age

Quotes 461 till 480 of 628.

  • Nadine Gordimer The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • George Foreman The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
    George Foreman
    American professional boxer (1949 - )
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: ''Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?''
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Doris Day The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!''
    Doris Day
    American singer, actress and animal activist (1922 - 2019)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Bill Medley 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.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
    Works (1913) IV, 315
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • David Ogilvy The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Lucille Ball The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Lucille Ball The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Juvenal The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Oscar Wilde The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Berthold Auerbach The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott The surest sign of age is loneliness.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Bob Wells The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
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  • E. B. White The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Oscar Wilde The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Louis Kronenberger The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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