A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Age doesn't matter. Obstacles don't matter. Winning is the challenge. Bottom line, inspiring others is the goal.”
“Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.”
“Age don't make you old Aunt Sara says, worries do."”
Source: Unbound: A Novel in Verse
“Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.”
Source: Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4
“Age either transfigures or petrifies.”
“Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“Age falters as memories grow.”
“Age for me is just a number.”
“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'.”
“Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything”
Source: The Last Eve
“Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“Age had nothing to do with how well my brain worked.”
Source: Outpost
“Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.”
Source: Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel
“Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.”
Source: The works
“Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.”
“Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.”
Source: Dangerous Ages
“Age has finally crept up on a man when he develops an interest in lame jokes, comfortable cardigans and uncoordinated dancing.”
“Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard
work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.”
“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life.”
“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.”
“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.”
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.”
“Age has taught me that what other people think of me is none of my business.”
Source: The Happy Endings Book Club
“Age hastens for those who measure its steps too often.”
“Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.”
Source: Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume
“Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.”
“Age, Henry, may a little modify our emotions— it does not destroy them.”
Source: Travels With My Aunt
“Age, I realized, could not account for the depth of one's experience. I was sure she had never experienced that kind of loss, for she would not have spoken of it so lightly if she had.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.”
Source: The spectator
“Age in itself gives substance — what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer’s mind.”
Source: Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
“Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.”
“Age is a clever thief that steals your time so slowly you don’t realize it’s happening until one day you discover most of it is gone.
Upon discovering this, the wise person attempts to take full advantage of what time remains.”
“Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.”
“Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.”
“Age is a count for human beings but death is just a number for Lord Shiva”
“Age is a cruel monster and time is no friend”
“Age is a funny thing. So are appearances. Neither is relevant to what one knows, in my opinion.”
Source: The Cloudstone Key
“Age is a gift that reveals our true beauty. It allows us to become the teachers we love, to mold young minds, and step into the future with light and laughter.”
Source: The Magic of Trees
“Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.”
“Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.”
“Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds.”
Source: Six Screenplays
“Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.”
Source: PRUE AND I
“Age is a meaningless commodity in most instances.”
Source: A Summer to Die
“Age is a mental construct. It is something that exists solely in an individual’s head.”
Source: Guide to Free Thinking: Stories & Life Lessons
“Age is a number on a piece of paper.”
“Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.”
Source: Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel