Age Quotes · Page 158

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

— Charles Sumner

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

— John Maynard Keynes

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

— Richard Armour

There are some people who cannot watch every film because of age. They might watch only three films in a year.

— Arjun Kapoor

I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at…

— Mike Greenberg

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

— Saddam Hussein

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

— William Shakespeare

Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?

— Anonymous

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions,…

— Jay McInerney

I actually think it doesn't even matter what age you are or what sex - though that does play into it sometimes…

— Charli XCX

Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired…

— Bruce R. McConkie

That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they…

— Freddie Hubbard

I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed…

— Michael Finkel

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become…

— May Sarton

God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice…

— David Lloyd George

In Latino culture, the quinceanera's a big thing - it's when a girl becomes a woman. But I think age is just…

— Emily Rios

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Do you not know that you are Eve? The judgment of God upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily…

— Tertullian

I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For…

— Marc Jacobs

What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those…

— Will Self

I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my…

— Will Cuppy

The only options open for girls then were of course mother, secretary or teacher. At least that's what we all thought and…

— Roseanne Barr

But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie).

— Jean de La Fontaine

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you have strong desire to learn, the age nothing binding you.

— Mak_786

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

— Anonymous

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you…

— Gloria Naylor

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror…

— Rodney Dangerfield

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

— Austin Kleon

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

— Pope Paul VI

O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees

— Torquato Tasso

When you're dealing with the age of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram, then everything becomes very selfish and cynical.

— Derek Trucks

My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.

— Dan Hill

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

— Marshall McLuhan

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

— Lytton Strachey

I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12…

— Paul Smith

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

— Thomas Jefferson

People think that I have figured it all out, at a young age, about love.

— Kartik Aaryan