Age Quotes

9856 Age quotes by 5336 unique authors

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine. — Dorothy Parker
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
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
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time. — Bob Hope
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
We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors. — Anne Roiphe
What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years. — Alfred de Vigny
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy. — Jonathan Swift
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination. — George Bernard Shaw
I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college. — Winston Churchill
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. — Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. — Robert Green Ingersoll
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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