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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘age’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. – William Ralph Inge
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Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville
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What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it’s that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can’t wait too long. It’s the single simplest measure to predict divorce. – Elizabeth Gilbert
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I’m glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie.…
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female. – Queen Latifah
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Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous. – Nicole Kidman
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I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. – Helena Bonham Carter
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The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. – Margaret Walker
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To be told that one can be dependent on one’s parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate. – Dennis Prager
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The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything. – Vivienne Westwood
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Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. – Johan Huizinga
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We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band. – Joan Jett
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I can’t hit on women in public any more. I didn’t decide this it just doesn’t feel right at my age. – Jack Nicholson
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This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. – Arthur C. Clarke
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. – David Ogilvy
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I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. – Morgan Freeman
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn’t so extraordinary, I don’t know why people go on about it so much. – Francesca Annis
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Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you’re very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few…
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Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you’re younger. But I haven’t abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It’s just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can’t convincingly portray at this age. – Julia Roberts
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. –…
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. – Thomas Hardy
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you? – Casey Stengel
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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job. – Billy Joel
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I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television. – Jimmy Buffett
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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. – Hannah Arendt
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I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20. – Liam Neeson
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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. – Florence King
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I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. – Noam Chomsky
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Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. – George MacDonald
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I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game. – Wayne Gretzky
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The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It’s something you don’t see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who’s my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities. – Mindy Kaling
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It’s ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn’t even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again. – Francis Ford Coppola
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. – Earl Warren
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In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before. – David Duchovny
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Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It’s the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. – Ang Lee
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Every time I see something terrible, it’s like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. – Ralph Nader
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We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress. – Li Ka Shing
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. – Graham Greene
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. – W. H. Auden
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. – Denis Diderot
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. – Adlai E. Stevenson
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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. – Helen Rowland
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My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking. – Amy Winehouse
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They that have lived a single day have lived an age. – Jean de la Bruyere
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. – John Henry Newman
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. – Edith Wharton
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. – Fred Allen
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do. – Daniel Day-Lewis
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I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there’s a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys. – Willie Nelson
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I shall not grow conservative with age. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his…
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I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don’t think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. – Charles Kuralt
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. – A. C. Benson
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Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others. – Simon Mainwaring
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. – Pearl S. Buck
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Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. – Ogden Nash
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. – Marshall McLuhan
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Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think. – Michael Caine
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You’d think that in this age, especially in the 21st century – especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we’ve made – that we would figure out how to tackle abuse. – Tori Amos
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Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package. – Keanu Reeves
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At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence. – Arsene Wenger
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I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age. – Mario Andretti
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Photography suits the temper of this age – of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately. – Edward Weston
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I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped. – Karl Lagerfeld
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I wish I’d gotten sober at a younger age. – Janice Dickinson
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’ – Sydney J. Harris
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If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order. – Pat Robertson
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master’s master, the genius of the age. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you. – Bennett Cerf
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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. – Havelock Ellis
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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. – James Joyce
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Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you’re younger but now I just think ‘well everybody’s absolutely mad and I’m doing quite well’. – Steven Morrissey
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. – Will Durant
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I think it’s pretty crazy to say you’ve been typecast at the age of 20 before you’ve even really started getting going. – Tom Felton
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At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we’re all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. – Peter Ustinov
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My inspiration was my mom. She’s a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that. – Emeril Lagasse
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. – Leon Trotsky
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Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you’re in your 60s and you’re with the kid every day, you’re dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again. –…
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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. – Jawaharlal Nehru
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With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I’m not afraid to make a fool of myself. – Hugh Jackman
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I’m not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I’m trying. – Tiger Woods
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This is the first convention of the space age – where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. – David Brinkley
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace. – Henry James
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. – Nicolas Chamfort
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I can’t look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can’t. I’d rather age. – Heidi Klum
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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. – Robert Byrne
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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15. – Hedy Lamarr
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I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible. – Mia Hamm
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Age, like distance lends a double charm. – Oliver Herford
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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. – Friedrich Schiller
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Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight. – Jessica Savitch
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. – Jackson Pollock
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Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it’s going to be even tougher. – Jeff Bridges
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I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet. – Alanis Morissette
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Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? – Desiderius Erasmus
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‘Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age’ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. – Christopher Hitchens
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The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. – Randall Jarrell
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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. – Gustave Flaubert
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English people don’t have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. – Vivien Leigh
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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. – Paul Klee
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You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren’t we kind of the same age? – Jennifer Aniston
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I think love can happen at any age… it has no age. – Shahrukh Khan
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Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. – Jerry Saltz
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If you’ve got to my age, you’ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it’s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it. – Emma Thompson
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My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I’ve begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I’ve had it good and am crumbling nicely. – Lionel Blue
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We’re saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who’ve already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation. – Paul Ryan
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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I’ve liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. – Tom Stoppard
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Women lie about their age men lie about their income. – William Feather
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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. – E. B. White
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. – Paul Cezanne
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My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head. – Rita Rudner
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. – Isabel Allende
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. – Richard M. Nixon
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I’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to…
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. – David Herbert Lawrence
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Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. – Doug Coupland
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. – Theodor Adorno
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly? – King Abdullah II
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A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. – Liz Carpenter
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I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere. – George Burns
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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?’ – Lady Gaga
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A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. – Baltasar Gracian
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. – Charles Caleb Colton
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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. – Satyajit Ray
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Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you’re the one in the green dress. – Lois Wyse
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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It’s great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I’m not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven’t done what they wanted with their lives. – Martha Gellhorn
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God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. – John Donne
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. – Jonathan Swift
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Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. – Mason Cooley
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving
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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. – Virginia Woolf
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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. – Franklin P. Adams
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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. – Albert Ellis
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In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. – Francis Schaeffer
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it. – Ben Stein
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. – Fidel Castro
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14… I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write. – John Irving
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Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. – Margaret Atwood
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. – Simone de Beauvoir
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. – Joseph Addison
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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. – John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. – Charles de Montesquieu
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. – William Hazlitt
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. – J. K. Rowling
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. – Eric Hoffer
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We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. – Robert Mugabe
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Marriage is not about age it’s about finding the right person. – Sophia Bush
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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. – Lyndon B. Johnson
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. – Andre Gide
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. – Gore Vidal
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. – William Wordsworth
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. – W. Somerset Maugham
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. – William Osler
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. – John Henrik Clarke
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In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation’s seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts. – Herman Cain
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I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, ‘Oh, God, what’s this?’ I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to…
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. – Stendhal
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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. – Michel Foucault
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The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned. – Cindy Crawford
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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. – John W. Gardner
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A woman tells her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’ The doctor says, ‘It’s old age.’ The woman says, ‘I want a second opinion.’ The doctor says: ‘Okay – you’re ugly as well.’ – Tommy Cooper
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