Age Quotes
9856 Age quotes by 5336 unique authors
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Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.
— Dorothy Parker
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to…
— Douglas MacArthur
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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like…
— Horace
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The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
— Bob Hope
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As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring…
— Rumer Godden
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We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.
— Anne Roiphe
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
— Alfred de Vigny
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For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
— Jonathan Swift
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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in…
— Louis Kronenberger
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The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.
— Peter Drucker
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By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he…
— Maria Montessori
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When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built…
— Edith Hamilton
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Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.
— Winston Churchill
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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
— Oscar Wilde
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to…
— William Shakespeare
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To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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