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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
81 thoughts from William Shakespeare
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
18 other quotes from Washington Irving
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
18 quotes from Washington Irving
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
21 more thoughts from William Wordsworth
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
8 more views from Hosea Ballou
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
42 wisdom & wit from Josh Billings
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
70 more thoughts from Thomas Jefferson
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
11 views from Nicolas Chamfort
Old age is no place for sissies.
21 thoughts from Bette Davis
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
18 more quotes from Washington Irving
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
6 quotes from Mary Wollstonecraft
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
81 more quotes from William Shakespeare
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
21 more quotes from William Wordsworth
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
38 quotes from William Hazlitt
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
17 other thoughts from John Burroughs
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
3 sayings from A. C. Benson
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
5 quotes from Martha Graham
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
22 other views from Robert Browning
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
45 more quotes from Bertrand Russell
Age considers youth ventures.
35 views from Rabindranath Tagore
All diseases run into one, old age.
135 more wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
11 quotes from Salvador Dali
Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
135 more thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
If youth knew if age could.
26 thoughts from Sigmund Freud
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
3 quotes from Angela Carter
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
22 other thoughts from James Dyson
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
14 sayings from Golda Meir
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
7 thoughts from Thomas Moore
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
15 more views from Orson Welles
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
2 quotes from Randall Jarrell
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
2 other quotes from Edmond de Goncourt
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
21 sayings from Karl Marx
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
6 more quotes from Benjamin Spock
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
22 quotes from Robert Browning
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
22 wisdom & wit from Robert Browning
Where children are, there is the golden age.
10 more quotes from Novalis
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.
24 other sayings from Joseph Addison
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
21 wisdom & wit from Mignon McLaughlin
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
5 thoughts from Brigham Young
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
20 more thoughts from Christopher Lasch
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
26 thoughts from Frank Lloyd Wright
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
28 more quotes from William Butler Yeats
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
7 other quotes from Judy Garland
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
9 sayings from Charles Spurgeon
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
3 thoughts from Irvin S. Cobb
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
47 quotes from George Orwell
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
15 more quotes from Pierre Corneille
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
31 other thoughts from Helen Keller
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
11 thoughts from David Ogilvy
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.
21 sayings from Mignon McLaughlin
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
10 other quotes from William Ralph Inge
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
18 sayings from Pearl S. Buck
Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
9 other views from Satchel Paige
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
18 quotes from Don Marquis
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
16 more quotes from Douglas Horton
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
19 other quotes from Marshall McLuhan
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
8 more quotes from Raymond Chandler
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
14 other views from Andre Maurois
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
5 other quotes from Aphra Behn
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
14 wisdom & wit from Andre Maurois
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
35 other quotes from Ernest Hemingway
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
2 quotes from Camille Pissarro
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
19 quotes from Marshall McLuhan
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
31 wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
18 views from Don Marquis
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
117 other sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
18 other sayings from Don Marquis
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
19 views from E. B. White
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
19 more quotes from Marshall McLuhan
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
12 more thoughts from Casey Stengel
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
11 wisdom & wit from William Osler
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
45 other sayings from Aldous Huxley
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
19 quotes from E. B. White
The trick is growing up without growing old.
12 more quotes from Casey Stengel
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
3 views from Margaret Walker
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
9 quotes from George Sand
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
45 more quotes from Aldous Huxley
A woman has the age she deserves.
16 sayings from Coco Chanel
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
15 quotes from Walter Scott
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
2 quotes from Knut Hamsun
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
14 more views from Ogden Nash
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
14 thoughts from Ogden Nash
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
13 other sayings from Herman Melville
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
3 quotes from Maggie Kuhn
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
15 thoughts from Walter Scott
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
22 other quotes from William Feather
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
17 thoughts from John Dryden
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
19 other quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
22 views from William Feather
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
11 other quotes from Lucille Ball
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
12 quotes from Bernard Baruch
Women lie about their age men lie about their income.
22 more sayings from William Feather
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
12 more quotes from Miguel de Unamuno
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
4 quotes from Agatha Christie
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
23 other thoughts from T. S. Eliot
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
24 wisdom & wit from Henri Frederic Amiel
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
26 more quotes from Theodor Adorno
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
7 sayings from Pope Paul VI
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
60 other quotes from H. L. Mencken
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
13 quotes from Sydney J. Harris
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
90 thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
6 more views from Francis Parker Yockey
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
9 quotes from J. B. Priestley
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
9 wisdom & wit from J. B. Priestley
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
14 other wisdom & wit from F. Scott Fitzgerald
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
9 quotes from J. B. Priestley
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
8 other views from Ezra Pound
Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.
4 thoughts from James Truslow Adams
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
8 more wisdom & wit from Helen Hayes
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
24 more quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
33 views from Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
6 thoughts from Lillie Langtry
I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
29 quotes from Groucho Marx
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
3 quotes from Henry A. Wallace
It takes a long time to become young.
29 more quotes from Pablo Picasso
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
8 more quotes from Thomas Browne
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
11 sayings from Graham Greene
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
30 views from Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
18 wisdom & wit from John Adams
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
24 other thoughts from Adlai E. Stevenson
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
8 quotes from Helen Hayes
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
2 wisdom & wit from Alfred Nobel
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
9 quotes from Hannah Arendt
Youth has no age.
29 quotes from Pablo Picasso
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
3 quotes from Jim Bishop
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
13 sayings from Andrew Carnegie
Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
14 quotes from Hedy Lamarr
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
78 quotes from Voltaire
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
25 thoughts from C. S. Lewis
I shall not grow conservative with age.
9 thoughts from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
12 other quotes from James Broughton
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
25 quotes from Will Durant
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
19 more thoughts from Jonathan Swift
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
19 thoughts from Jonathan Swift
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
22 other thoughts from Andre Gide
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
98 sayings from Mark Twain
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
9 wisdom & wit from Pope John XXIII
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
8 thoughts from Franklin P. Adams
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
19 other wisdom & wit from Jonathan Swift
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
6 thoughts from Felix Frankfurter
Old age is a shipwreck.
19 thoughts from Charles de Gaulle
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
3 quotes from Leon Trotsky
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
25 sayings from Will Durant
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
8 quotes from Franklin P. Adams
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
13 quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
29 quotes from Friedrich Schiller
We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
2 other quotes from Monica Edwards
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
78 other thoughts from Voltaire
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
13 thoughts from Amos Bronson Alcott
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
12 more quotes from George MacDonald
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
9 quotes from Willa Cather
No man is ever old enough to know better.
4 thoughts from Holbrook Jackson
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
26 wisdom & wit from Emily Dickinson
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
3 thoughts from Louis Kronenberger
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
14 sayings from James Thurber
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
8 more quotes from Matthew Arnold
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
46 views from George Santayana
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
5 quotes from Max Lerner
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
6 quotes from Norman Douglas
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
11 other wisdom & wit from Douglas MacArthur
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
5 sayings from Oliver Herford
At my age flowers scare me.
21 quotes from George Burns
At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
75 more views from Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.
75 quotes from Aristotle
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
6 other views from Geoffrey Chaucer
God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
10 more sayings from John Donne
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
23 other wisdom & wit from Paul Cezanne
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
23 more sayings from Paul Cezanne
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
21 views from George Burns
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
21 views from George Burns
I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
21 other views from George Burns
I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
21 sayings from George Burns
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
21 quotes from George Burns
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
14 quotes from Charles de Montesquieu
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
40 quotes from William James
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
30 views from Virginia Woolf
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
30 wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
67 thoughts from Francis Bacon
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
23 thoughts from Paul Cezanne
Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
21 thoughts from George Burns
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
13 more quotes from Alexander Hamilton
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
29 sayings from W. Somerset Maugham
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
29 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
6 other quotes from Edith Wharton
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
9 other wisdom & wit from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
8 other views from Jane Seymour
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
17 sayings from Friedrich Durrenmatt
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
21 other quotes from George Burns
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
9 sayings from Walter Savage Landor
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
37 quotes from Edmund Burke
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
30 quotes from Charles Caleb Colton
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
3 other sayings from Lascelles Abercrombie
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
23 more thoughts from Helen Rowland
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
14 other wisdom & wit from Stendhal
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
36 views from Lord Byron
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
12 views from Simone de Beauvoir
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
29 thoughts from W. Somerset Maugham
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
67 views from Francis Bacon
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
21 thoughts from George Burns
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
21 more quotes from Anais Nin
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
21 wisdom & wit from Anais Nin
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
32 other thoughts from Michel de Montaigne
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
4 other thoughts from Jack Benny
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
11 views from James Joyce
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
3 other thoughts from Lydia M. Child
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
73 views from Victor Hugo
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
11 thoughts from James Joyce
Now is the age of anxiety.
21 quotes from W. H. Auden
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
7 other quotes from Lawrence Durrell
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
26 sayings from Charles Dickens
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
7 other sayings from Jeremy Bentham
We are always the same age inside.
31 quotes from Gertrude Stein
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
5 other wisdom & wit from Thomas More
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
6 quotes from Sinclair Lewis
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
50 other quotes from Robert Frost
Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
18 more quotes from Jean Paul
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
105 sayings from Albert Einstein
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
105 more thoughts from Albert Einstein
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
2 quotes from Gene Fowler
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
7 more quotes from B. F. Skinner
Live your life and forget your age.
18 views from Jean Paul
Old age is the verdict of life.
5 views from Amelia Barr
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
8 more views from Malcolm Muggeridge
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
7 quotes from Gloria Swanson
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
18 quotes from Jean Paul
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
16 other views from Erich Fromm
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
5 other quotes from Tom Wilson