Age Quotes
9856 Age quotes by 5336 unique authors
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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
— Homer
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Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.
— Robert Breault
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
— Plutarch
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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
— Ambrose Bierce
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At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.
— Robert Breault
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
— Alexander Pope
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
— Jonathan Swift
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When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
— Laurence Olivier
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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any…
— Robert Breault
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It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their…
— George D. Prentice
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They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.
— Rick Majerus
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It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the…
— Robert Breault
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The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what…
— Marya Mannes
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Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and…
— Jules Feiffer
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You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband.…
— Lillian Gish
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
— Jim Bishop
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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality,…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that…
— T. Harv Eker
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I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which…
— T. Harv Eker
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The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage…
— T. Harv Eker
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