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Image of Juvenal
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
- Juvenal
Collection: Age
Image of Samuel Johnson
An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Age
Image of William Ralph Inge
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
- William Ralph Inge
Collection: Age
Image of David Hume
The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.
- David Hume
Collection: Age
Image of Samuel Johnson
In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Age
Image of Thomas Jefferson
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Age
Image of Robert Jordan
At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.
- Robert Jordan
Collection: Age
Image of Francis Bacon
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Age
Image of Ben Jonson
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
- Ben Jonson
Collection: Age
Image of Garrison Keillor
Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
- Garrison Keillor
Collection: Age
Image of Helen Keller
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
- Helen Keller
Collection: Age
Image of George Henry Lewes
The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
- George Henry Lewes
Collection: Age
Image of C. S. Lewis
Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Age
Image of C. S. Lewis
But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Age
Image of Eric Liu
Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.
- Eric Liu
Collection: Age
Image of Nicole Krauss
I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
- Nicole Krauss
Collection: Age
Image of Satish Kumar
So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
- Satish Kumar
Collection: Age
Image of Karl Kraus
Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.
- Karl Kraus
Collection: Age
Image of Jen Lancaster
The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously.
- Jen Lancaster
Collection: Age
Image of Beyonce Knowles
This is such a pivotal moment in my life! I'm transitioning as a woman, and I'm finally able to express myself as I am.
- Beyonce Knowles
Collection: Age
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Age
Image of Toni Cade Bambara
old folks is the nation.
- Toni Cade Bambara
Collection: Age
Image of David Levithan
But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest -- the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.
- David Levithan
Collection: Age
Image of Lisa Kleypas
I still don’t get why I have to eat breakfast if you don’t,” Josie muttered. “Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.
- Lisa Kleypas
Collection: Age
Image of Louis L'Amour
To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.
- Louis L'Amour
Collection: Age
Image of Jonah Lehrer
The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.
- Jonah Lehrer
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Image of Ninon de L'Enclos
Old age is women's hell.
- Ninon de L'Enclos
Collection: Age
Image of Ninon de L'Enclos
Old age is a woman's hell.
- Ninon de L'Enclos
Collection: Age
Image of Terry Bozzio
My motives at a young age were, "I want to be rich and famous".
- Terry Bozzio
Collection: Age
Image of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Collection: Age
Image of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Collection: Age
Image of Giacomo Leopardi
I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.
- Giacomo Leopardi
Collection: Age
Image of Frank Langella
At this point in my career, I can stand shoulder to shoulder with an actor my age who has chosen to do really awful things, and he will get a job over me.
- Frank Langella
Collection: Age
Image of Philip Larkin
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
- Philip Larkin
Collection: Age
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Age
Image of R. D. Laing
We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today.
- R. D. Laing
Collection: Age
Image of Anne Lamott
I am all the ages I've ever been.
- Anne Lamott
Collection: Age
Image of C. S. Lewis
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Age
Image of Karl Kraus
Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.
- Karl Kraus
Collection: Age
Image of Jennifer Lawrence
Where are the Robert Redfords and Paul Newmans of my age group? I love James Franco, but where's the next James Franco? Where are the hunks who can act?
- Jennifer Lawrence
Collection: Age
Image of P. T. Barnum
The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.
- P. T. Barnum
Collection: Age
Image of Thomas Malthus
With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.
- Thomas Malthus
Collection: Age
Image of Marshall McLuhan
The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".
- Marshall McLuhan
Collection: Age
Image of Rollo May
Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form.
- Rollo May
Collection: Age
Image of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collection: Age
Image of Thomas Mann
…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
- Thomas Mann
Collection: Age
Image of Phyllis McGinley
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
- Phyllis McGinley
Collection: Age