Quotes with middle-age

Quotes 641 till 660 of 825.

  • Samuel Johnson There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bram Stoker There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
    Dracula Dracula (2007 edition), Book Jungle
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Bill Bryson There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Ayn Rand There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Annie Dillard There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Sophia Loren There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.
    Sophia Loren
    Italian actress (1934 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Boris Johnson There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
    Face it: its all your own fat fault, Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2004, p. 24.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Callum Keith Rennie There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Will Durant There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Seneca There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bruce Lipton There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • J. B. Priestley There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Edith Wharton There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bill Medley There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Barry Humphries There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • H. Rap Brown They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • Laurence Binyen They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
    We shall remember them.
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  • Jean de la Bruyère They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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