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Age Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave…
- The heart never grows better with age; I fear rather worse, always harder.
- Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
- Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
- Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it…
- There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood