Age Quotes · Page 180

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2

— MaryAnne Tebedo

Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice.

— Phil Crane

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

— Keith Richards

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.

— Godfrey Bloom

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a…

— Anne Tyler

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract…

— Andy Warhol

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living…

— Donald Trump

If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated…

— Peter Drucker

I truly believe that one of the reasons why I look and feel so well is because I've very few inhibitions. I…

— Mamie Van Doren

Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but…

— Tim Cope

If I could have picked two guys on the planet, to have some exposure to at that age, those were the two…

— Jon Gordon

My father had nine kids, seven boys and two girls, and my uncle had 21 kids, 11 boys and 10 girls. They…

— Royce Gracie

I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they…

— Seymour Papert

Football came in at an interesting time. My dad passed, and my brother was one year older than me. And so he…

— Nnamdi Asomugha

Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa,…

— Shane Warren Jones

You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because…

— Tom Colicchio

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like…

— Dolly Parton

I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my…

— Richard Flanagan

So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote…

— Isabel Allende

The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our…

— John M. Tyler

I think you can see in the way I play that I've watched the game from a young age.

— Jude Bellingham

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

— Dodie Smith

The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.

— Diane von Furstenberg

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

— Peter Greenaway

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

— Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.

— James D. Watson

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

— Dean Koontz

I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies…

— R. Madhavan

Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.

— Reese Witherspoon

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new…

— James Laughlin

The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New…

— John Michael Talbot

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

— Golda Meir

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

— Evan Esar

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

— Terri E Apter