| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| John Galsworthy | Love has no age, no limit; and no death.  | 72 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. | 101 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. | 101 |
| Alfred Nobel | Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. | 101 |
| Andy Serkis | Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre. | 101 |
| Ausonius | Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. | 101 |
| Bo Bennett | Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. | 101 |
| Bram Stoker | There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part. | 101 |
| Daisy Fuentes | You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship. | 101 |
| Dylan Thomas | Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. | 101 |
| Emma Thompson | 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. | 101 |
| Freddie Prinze, Jr. | Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world. | 101 |
| George M. Church | The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous - to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook. | 101 |
| Ian McLagan | My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years. | 101 |
| Ian Rankin | I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story. | 101 |
| Liv Tyler | The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot. | 101 |
| Max Weber | No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. | 101 |
| Melania Trump | A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life; I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox. I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does. | 101 |
| Niecy Nash | There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!' | 101 |
| Oswald Mosley | There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age. | 101 |
| Philip Roth | Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. | 101 |
| Pope John XXIII | Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. | 101 |
| R. L. Stine | Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age. | 101 |
| Satchel Paige | Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter. | 101 |
| Stanislaw Jerzy Lec | Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. | 101 |
| Suzanne Collins | One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories. | 101 |
| Thom Yorke | Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with. | 101 |
| Tina Fey | I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age. | 101 |
| Tommy Cooper | 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.' | 101 |
| Tycho Brahe | I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world. | 101 |
| Victoria Abril | You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. | 101 |
| Vinnie Jones | My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away. | 101 |
| Yuri Milner | I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors. | 101 |
| Zarin Mehta | I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important. | 101 |
| Abhishek Bachchan | A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy. | 101 |
| Andre Maurois | Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. | 101 |
| Bobby Womack | I think people like it when I tell them, 'I'm lucky to be here, because they are, too. Ain't nothing to do with age. There ain't nothing promised to you. Everybody's going to die. | 101 |
| Brandi Carlile | You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took. | 101 |
| Charles Sumner | The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. | 101 |
| Donald Hall | New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two. | 101 |
| Doris Day | Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. | 101 |
| Ellen Barkin | I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood. | 101 |
| Geri Halliwell | 'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe. | 101 |
| Jason Mraz | I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go. | 101 |
| John Henry Newman | 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. | 101 |
| John le Carre | I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself. | 101 |
| Katie Lowes | If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that's the best. I have a group of girlfriends that I would lay in front of a bus for. They've picked me up through really, really bad times and I can definitely say I've done the same for them. | 101 |
| Laura Marling | Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity. | 101 |
| Li Ka-shing | 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. | 101 |
| Manfred Mann | The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands. | 101 |
| Martin Jacques | Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here, he never felt at home in Britain. This juxtaposition was a crucial source of his strength and originality. Because of his colour and origin, he saw the country differently - not as a native, but as an outsider. | 101 |
| Matt Bomer | Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule. | 101 |
| Norman Spinrad | It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. | 101 |
| Paul Stamets | Chaga mycelium is relatively easy to grow by using methods already practiced elsewhere in the mushroom industry. Its mycelium is initially an off-whitish color, deepening with age. | 101 |
| Rene Russo | I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger. | 101 |
| Sharron Angle | There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability. | 101 |
| Toby Keith | My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age. | 101 |
| Tony Curtis | Its not age as much as the experiences I have had. | 101 |
| Vic Snyder | It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors. | 101 |
| Violette Leduc | At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came. | 101 |
| Billie Burke | Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese. | 101 |
| Bob Barker | I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s. | 101 |
| Calamity Jane | By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age. | 101 |
| David Agus | Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty. | 101 |
| David Talbot | I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. | 101 |
| Frederick Jackson Turner | Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. | 101 |
| Hume Cronyn | The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. | 101 |
| John Polkinghorne | Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. | 101 |
| Julie Burchill | As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. | 101 |
| Kathleen Blanco | Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty. | 101 |
| Lactantius | Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. | 101 |
| Luis Bunuel | Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. | 101 |
| Nancy Roman | I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations. | 101 |
| Patina Miller | I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's hard, but it's really fun. | 101 |
| Peter Jurasik | Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother. | 101 |
| Richard Leakey | Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people. | 101 |
| Robert Fogel | One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, 'Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.' | 101 |
| S. Jay Olshansky | We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease. | 101 |
| Stephen Chbosky | When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me. | 101 |
| Stuart Rose | I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless? | 101 |
| Thomas Arnold | One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. | 101 |
| Amy Robach | I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child. | 101 |
| Bonnie Wright | I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age. | 101 |
| Charles Kingsley | Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. | 101 |
| David Chipperfield | I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age. | 101 |
| Dorothy Canfield Fisher | Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. | 101 |
| Gary L. Francione | Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. | 101 |
| Jane Goldman | I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age. | 101 |
| Kumar Pallana | I'm an old guy. I don't hustle and I don't bustle. So sometimes you're behind, but that's okay. Your peace of mind is more important. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age. They could have enjoyed life. | 101 |
| Leander Paes | Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased. | 101 |
| Leo Howard | Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself. | 101 |
| Luke Harding | Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language. | 101 |
| Maurice Chevalier | A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. | 101 |
| Sissy Spacek | Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer. | 101 |
| Sophie Tucker | From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. | 101 |
| Steve Forbert | I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song like 'Middle Age' or 'Responsibility' or 'I Just Work Here,' and it's about how bleak life can be. But it's real. | 101 |
| Sugata Mitra | Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers. | 101 |
| William Ernest Hocking | I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. | 101 |
| Adam Clayton | From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting. | 101 |
| Barbara Windsor | I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother. | 101 |
| Brooks Atkinson | In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. | 101 |
| Eric Bentley | Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. | 101 |
| George Montgomery | I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis. | 101 |
| Judith Viorst | You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. | 101 |
| James F. Cooper | Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean. | 101 |
| Percy Julian | I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going. | 101 |
| Philip Dunne | I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster. | 101 |
| Ariel Dorfman | We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile. | 101 |
| Arthur Lewis | My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children. | 101 |
| Audra McDonald | I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life. | 101 |
| Catherine Malandrino | I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes. | 101 |
| Darren L Johnson | Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity. | 101 |
| Dexter Holland | I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things. | 101 |
| Jenny Lawson | Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends. | 101 |
| John Singleton | I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies. | 101 |
| Matthew James Thomas | Any young man coming of age has a lot to go through. Peter Parker certainly has a lot of responsibility, and without doubt, so does Pippin - his role, his life, and how he is going to perform it. It's all about choices and how we make them. | 101 |
| Monica Edwards | We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff. | 101 |
| Rick Bass | My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. | 101 |
| Simon Raven | And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. | 101 |
| David Gemmell | Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment. | 101 |
| Josh Duhamel | My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible. | 101 |
| Maria Edgeworth | The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. | 101 |
| Michaela Watkins | Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something. | 101 |
| Rabbit Maranville | I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm. | 101 |
| Silvia Colloca | My body is like in a computer for good for the rest of my life - at age 23. I have my cyber body so if they ever need me young again I can just go, 'It's in the computer.' | 101 |
| Dennis Flanagan | In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer. | 101 |
| David Carr | We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are? | 101 |
| Juanes | When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15. | 101 |
| Maggie Kuhn | Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. | 101 |
| Maud Welzen | I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling. | 101 |
| Alan Bleasdale | To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. | 101 |
| Jesse Plemons | I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds that could ride horses and swing a rope, and for whatever reason, my mom took me up there when I was 3. But I always had a rope, and I was a little cowboy at that age. | 101 |
| Marvin Davis | As men get older, the toys get more expensive. | 101 |
| Johnny Ball | Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. | 101 |
| Jordan Bridges | The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business. | 101 |
| Joseph Lewis | The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time. | 101 |
| Marshall McLuhan | 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. | 102 |
| Amanda Seyfried | It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age. | 102 |
| Amy Winehouse | 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. | 102 |
| Bill Bryson | There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. | 102 |
| Blake Lively | People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present. | 102 |
| Bob Hope | I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap. | 102 |
| Brigitte Bardot | What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. | 102 |
| Craig Ferguson | I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure. | 102 |
| Dave Ramsey | My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid. | 102 |
| Dee Dee Myers | Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap. | 102 |
| Denis Diderot | When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. | 102 |
| Douglas Booth | We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press. | 102 |
| Edmund White | There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement. | 102 |
| Fay Weldon | There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. | 102 |
| Frances Conroy | As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. | 102 |
| George Burns | You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. | 102 |
| Ginger Rogers | My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left! | 102 |
| Henry Miller | In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. | 102 |
| Ian Rush | Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play. | 102 |
| Isaac D'Israeli | The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. | 102 |
| Jello Biafra | I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while. | 102 |
| Kevin Spacey | If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! | 102 |
| Lauren Bacall | I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. | 102 |
| Lex Luger | I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride. | 102 |
| Lindsay Lohan | I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict. | 102 |
| Liv Tyler | I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too. | 102 |
| Miguel de Unamuno | A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. | 102 |
| Nick Cannon | One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age. | 102 |
| Nina Garcia | People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things. | 102 |
| Olivia Munn | I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. | 102 |
| Robert Winston | Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the 'Guardian' carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm. | 102 |
| Shah Rukh Khan | I think love can happen at any age... it has no age. | 102 |
| Sophia Loren | There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. | 102 |
| T. D. Jakes | There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them. | 102 |
| Walter Murch | I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. | 102 |
| Xavier Becerra | According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12. | 102 |
| Yanni | New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name. | 102 |
| Zoe Saldana | I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. | 102 |
| Amber Heard | Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet. | 102 |
| Anthony Browne | I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood. | 102 |
| Anthony Burgess | One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. | 102 |
| Bob Saget | Soon, I'm going to meet somebody around my own age, and she's going to be smart and beautiful, and I'm going to date her daughter. | 102 |
| Booth Tarkington | Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. | 102 |
| Bryan Batt | Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. It's cheaper than plastic surgery. | 102 |
| Ed Wynn | I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years. | 102 |
| Edward Weston | 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. | 102 |
| Ehud Barak | If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations. | 102 |
| Herman Kahn | From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process. | 102 |
| Jim Bishop | 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. | 102 |
| Lance Bass | It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties. | 102 |
| Mahmoud Darwish | When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions. | 102 |
| Matthew Arnold | The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. | 102 |
| Mickey Rourke | As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really? | 102 |
| Nandan Nilekani | My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet. | 102 |
| Richard Attenborough | At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too. | 102 |
| Rita Dove | I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. | 102 |
| Robert Johnson | Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one. | 102 |
| Sam Taylor-Johnson | If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon! | 102 |
| Walker Percy | You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. | 102 |
| William Holden | I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21. | 102 |
| A. C. Benson | When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. | 102 |
| Cat Cora | I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age. | 102 |
| David Gerrold | What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture. | 102 |
| Harold Coffin | Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. | 102 |
| Knut Hamsun | In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. | 102 |
| Lisa Leslie | Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old. | 102 |
| Lucy Walker | With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories. | 102 |
| Michael Mina | From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was that kid who wouldn't eat something if there was something missing. I never really understood it until I began cooking professionally, balancing acids, sweets, spicy flavors and fat. | 102 |
| Samantha Morton | I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age. | 102 |
| William Kempe | I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now. | 102 |
| William Manchester | Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. | 102 |
| Anita Shreve | A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house. | 102 |
| George Hickenlooper | There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice. | 102 |
| Larry Harvey | I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside. | 102 |
| Matthew Rhys | I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in. | 102 |
| Mildred S. Dresselhaus | My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there. | 102 |
| Rex Harrison | I'm at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was. | 102 |
| Ryan Coogler | Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent crime, interaction with the police is always intense. That's something you have to learn. My mom taught me at a young age that if ever a cop stops you, you put your hands up and freeze - don't move. | 102 |
| Claire Scovell LaZebnik | When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly. | 102 |
| Dana Delany | I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age. | 102 |
| Donald G. Mitchell | Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. | 102 |
| James Anthony Froude | Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. | 102 |
| John Astin | The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated! | 102 |
| Lawrence Clark Powell | We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. | 102 |
| Martha Gellhorn | 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. | 102 |
| Michael Patrick King | 'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes. | 102 |
| Akhmad Kadyrov | I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five. | 102 |
| Cameron van der Burgh | I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin. | 102 |
| Leon Edel | The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. | 102 |
| Duniya Vijay | I am an actor who turned hero at age 32, after many years of struggle. I wanted to break the stereotype that only good-looking men with a good complexion, height and physique can be heroes, which I have managed to do. | 102 |
| Ann-Margret | I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am. | 102 |
| Charles Taze Russell | To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction. | 102 |
| Johan Huizinga | Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. | 102 |
| Mary Frann | I like a boyish quality in a man, somebody who is still adventurous. But I have no rules. I do not care - within reason - about your chronological age. I care whether you have passion in your life. | 102 |
| John Entwistle | I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married. | 102 |
| John Knowles | Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework. | 102 |
| Francis Bacon | 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. | 103 |
| Andrew Carnegie | As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. | 103 |
| Ariana Grande | Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them. | 103 |
| Bernard Baruch | To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. | 103 |
| Dita Von Teese | Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing. | 103 |
| Douglas Brinkley | Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool. | 103 |
| Earl Warren | 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. | 103 |
| Gary Bauer | Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age. | 103 |
| Ginni Rometty | Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad. | 103 |
| Hayao Miyazaki | We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. | 103 |
| Heather Graham | I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun. | 103 |
| John Edwards | We ought to follow through on an idea that was first proposed by President Clinton to allow people over the age of 55 who are not eligible for Medicare into the Medicare system, at cost, and below cost for those who can't afford it. That takes care of a significant number of the people who don't have health insurance. | 103 |
| John Forbes Nash, Jr. | There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that. | 103 |
| Katharine Graham | No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. | 103 |
| Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach | In youth we learn; in age we understand. | 103 |
| Michael Hutchence | There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. | 103 |
| Orhan Pamuk | From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double. | 103 |
| Paul Cezanne | I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. | 103 |
| Shakira | I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age. | 103 |
| Simon Mainwaring | 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. | 103 |
| Sting | I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. | 103 |
| Thomas Dekker | This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. | 103 |
| Woody Harrelson | A grownup is a child with layers on. | 103 |
| Zendaya | Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there. | 103 |
| Alfred de Vigny | We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. | 103 |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. | 103 |
| Andy Kaufman | My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that? | 103 |
| Aphra Behn | Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. | 103 |
| Bryce Dallas Howard | When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man. | 103 |
| Chiwetel Ejiofor | I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one. | 103 |
| David Brin | Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. | 103 |
| Demi Moore | For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. | 103 |
| Donald Sutherland | At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role. | 103 |
| Gail Kelly | In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate. | 103 |
| Gene Fowler | He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. | 103 |
| Helen Gurley Brown | After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. | 103 |
| Ira Gershwin | Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. | 103 |
| Liya Kebede | The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts. | 103 |
| Michelle Paver | I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought I might set it in the past. I didn't realise that it went back to when I was 10: I used to love the Stone Age when I was a kid and wanted to live in it, and I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor, but I didn't remember it. | 103 |
| Nancy Friday | I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together. | 103 |
| Penny Marshall | You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know? | 103 |
| Roger Bannister | I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit! | 103 |
| A. J. P. Taylor | The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. | 103 |
| Colleen McCullough | The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. | 103 |
| Danny Dyer | I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it. | 103 |
| David Niven | Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way. | 103 |
| Elizabeth Holmes | At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world. | 103 |
| Gaby Hoffmann | I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime. | 103 |
| Janeane Garofalo | Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking. | 103 |
| Joe Lieberman | This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing. | 103 |
| John Singer Sargent | Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. | 103 |
| John Woolman | About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible. | 103 |
| Julia Stiles | I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age; I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that. | 103 |
| Lascelles Abercrombie | The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. | 103 |
| Linwood Barclay | I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.' | 103 |
| Lucille Roybal-Allard | Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. | 103 |
| M. H. Abrams | It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. | 103 |
| Maddie Ziegler | I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it. | 103 |
| Mia Wasikowska | You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings. | 103 |
| Pindar | A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. | 103 |
| Rachel Stevens | A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. | 103 |
| Randy Bachman | When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset. | 103 |
| Ruth Gordon | Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs. | 103 |
| Ryan Giggs | Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything. | 103 |
| Strom Thurmond | I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in. | 103 |
| Candace Cameron Bure | Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love. | 103 |
| Charles Frazier | Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. | 103 |
| Claude Pepper | A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.' | 103 |
| Erez Lieberman Aiden | I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles. | 103 |
| Julie Walters | It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people. | 103 |
| Leven Rambin | I'm at the age where I just want to experiment. You know, play a crime investigator one week, a pregnant girl one week, an angel of darkness another week. I don't want to define myself by any category, or age, or role. | 103 |
| Michael Merzenich | If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body. | 103 |
| Muriel Spark | Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. | 103 |
| Richard Attias | When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced. | 103 |
| Richard Dean Anderson | That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.' | 103 |
| Sam Ewing | Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. | 103 |
| Sonny Rollins | There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. | 103 |
| Susan Anton | There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. | 103 |
| Anjelica Huston | Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth. | 103 |
| Dixie Lee Ray | It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country. | 103 |
| Don Tapscott | Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship. | 103 |
| Jennifer Jason Leigh | People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant. | 103 |
| John Lahr | Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts. | 103 |
| Lillian Gordy Carter | Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. | 103 |
| Ludwig Borne | If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little. | 103 |
| Mae Whitman | The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful. | 103 |
| Amanda Holden | I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage. | 103 |
| Bob Wells | The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. | 103 |
| Jeff Dunham | Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick. | 103 |
| Maksim Chmerkovskiy | Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that. | 103 |
| Matt Lucas | Success came to us at an age where we could enjoy it. We went through a lot of hard times, so we appreciate success all the more now. | 103 |
| Mark Dayton | The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut. | 103 |
| Anne Burrell | I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy. | 103 |
| Arthur Goldberg | Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford. | 103 |
| Jacky Ickx | The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale. | 103 |
| Pablo Picasso | Youth has no age. | 104 |
| Ann Voskamp | Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal. | 104 |
| Benazir Bhutto | Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age. | 104 |
| Betty Friedan | Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. | 104 |
| Brigham Young | Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. | 104 |
| Curtis LeMay | My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age. | 104 |
| Dwight L. Moody | Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. | 104 |
| George Burns | If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. | 104 |
| Haniel Long | Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest. | 104 |
| Harold Prince | I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on. | 104 |
| Helena Bonham Carter | 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. | 104 |
| Joseph Addison | 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. | 104 |
| Kate Bush | I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up. | 104 |
| Michael Caine | I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. | 104 |
| Pete Townshend | We tried not to age, but time had its rage. | 104 |
| Scott Stossel | I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10, when I was first taken to a mental hospital for evaluation and then referred to a psychiatrist for treatment, tried in various ways to overcome my anxiety. | 104 |
| Thomas Dekker | Age is like love, it cannot be hid. | 104 |
| Will Self | I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy. | 104 |
| Willa Cather | Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. | 104 |
| Amy Tan | My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day. | 104 |
| Bennett Cerf | Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. | 104 |
| Chen Shui-bian | Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service. | 104 |
| Donald Johanson | What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time. | 104 |
| Doris Day | The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. | 104 |
| Edmond de Goncourt | 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. | 104 |
| Emily Blunt | People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything. | 104 |
| Franklin Pierce Adams | Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. | 104 |
| Patrick J. Kennedy | For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. | 104 |
| Sara Sheridan | As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. | 104 |
| Sasha Grey | I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't. | 104 |
| Thomas Browne | Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. | 104 |
| Tony Judt | Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure. | 104 |
| Tryon Edwards | Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. | 104 |
| Wil S. Hylton | In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For the first time in American history, it was not only legal to relinquish a baby; in Nebraska, it was okay to abandon any child of any age for any reason at any time - with the full protection of the law. | 104 |
| A. N. Wilson | Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. | 104 |
| Cat Cora | We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time. | 104 |
| Glenn Frey | I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles. | 104 |
| Jenna Morasca | As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected. | 104 |
| Nelson Rockefeller | There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'. | 104 |
| Amber Tamblyn | This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying. | 104 |
| Dorothy Canfield Fisher | One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. | 104 |
| Jacques Pepin | You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen. | 104 |
| Louis Kronenberger | Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. | 104 |
| Michael Weatherly | I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast. | 104 |
| Samantha Stosur | It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn. | 104 |
| Samuel Ullman | You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. | 104 |
| Aaron Johnson | My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker. | 104 |
| Jane Leavy | Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age. | 104 |
| Chris Froome | Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be. | 104 |
| James Ellroy | I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. | 104 |
| Johnny Ramone | I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is. | 104 |
| Mark Twain | Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. | 105 |
| Aldous Huxley | The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. | 105 |
| Morgan Freeman | 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. | 105 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God. | 105 |
| Bonnie Raitt | I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. | 105 |
| Chris Hardwick | Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl. | 105 |
| Craig Venter | I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted. | 105 |
| Donna Karan | Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference. | 105 |
| Freya Stark | If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. | 105 |
| Haruki Murakami | You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you. | 105 |
| Heber J. Grant | When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.' | 105 |
| Hesiod | Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. | 105 |
| Hugh Jackman | 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. | 105 |
| Imtiaz Ali | I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world. | 105 |
| John Henrik Clarke | 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. | 105 |
| Linus Pauling | By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years. | 105 |
| Luciano Pavarotti | If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them. | 105 |
| Nawal El Saadawi | Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?' | 105 |
| Olivia Wilde | A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet. | 105 |
| Rebecca MacKinnon | The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age. | 105 |
| Stanley Hauerwas | I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods. | 105 |
| Stephen Fry | I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. | 105 |
| Warren Beatty | My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. | 105 |
| Will Durant | 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. | 105 |
| Bruce Lipton | Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. | 105 |
| Diane Lane | I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase. | 105 |
| Elizabeth Berkley | Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering. | 105 |
| Garrett Hedlund | I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut. | 105 |
| Hans Kung | That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. | 105 |
| Jack Benny | Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. | 105 |
| Jane Elliot | Age is how we determine how valuable you are. | 105 |
| Mark Helprin | I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart. | 105 |
| Philip Emeagwali | When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments. | 105 |
| Pranab Mukherjee | As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age. | 105 |
| William Styron | The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. | 105 |
| Candice Bergen | Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. | 105 |
| Carmen Dell'Orefice | We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel. | 105 |
| Dorothy Thompson | Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. | 105 |
| George Thorogood | There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young. | 105 |
| Karl Marlantes | We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique. | 105 |
| Michael Cera | The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded. | 105 |
| Patsy Kensit | Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny. | 105 |
| Sarah Kay | At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds. | 105 |
| Tony Wilson | Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion. | 105 |
| Tyson Chandler | I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do. | 105 |
| Bill Simmons | Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always. | 105 |
| Elijah Wood | I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me. | 105 |
| Louis Kronenberger | The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination. | 105 |
| Matthew Gray Gubler | My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately. | 105 |
| Maurice Chevalier | You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing. | 105 |
| Rachel Johnson | With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.' | 105 |
| Alva Myrdal | The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion. | 105 |
| Clarence Day | Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. | 105 |
| James Broughton | I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. | 105 |
| Robert Quillen | As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. | 105 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 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. | 106 |
| Isak Dinesen | Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. | 106 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. | 106 |
| Sophocles | Not even old age knows how to love death. | 106 |
| Chance The Rapper | It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't. | 106 |
| Chuck Noll | One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past. | 106 |
| Florence King | 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. | 106 |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. | 106 |
| Gail Collins | I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade. | 106 |
| George Clooney | I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life. | 106 |
| George Saunders | We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. | 106 |
| Havelock Ellis | 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. | 106 |
| Ishmael Beah | I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter. | 106 |
| Jackson Pollock | 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. | 106 |
| James Dyson | In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked. | 106 |
| Karen DeCrow | The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green? | 106 |
| Katherine Jenkins | If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation. | 106 |
| Louise Nurding | Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered. | 106 |
| Nick Cannon | So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued. | 106 |
| Norman Douglas | 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. | 106 |
| Patch Adams | At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged. | 106 |
| Peter Ustinov | At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. | 106 |
| Philip Johnson | To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own. | 106 |
| Raquel Welch | I think it'd be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that they then wouldn't have to age at the same rate that they would if they were not more active. In other words, more physical fitness and not just the sporty kind, but the yoga, which is really important. | 106 |
| Tim Howard | Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior. | 106 |
| Tina Turner | I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet! | 106 |
| Angela Ahrendts | Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender. | 106 |
| Bobby Darin | Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27. | 106 |
| Brooke Shields | Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night. | 106 |
| Colin Firth | One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor. | 106 |
| Evander Holyfield | When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions. | 106 |
| Holbrook Jackson | No man is ever old enough to know better. | 106 |
| Jackie Joyner-Kersee | Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind. | 106 |
| Jeanne Moreau | Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. | 106 |
| Joe Frazier | Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age. | 106 |
| Lucy Hale | I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them. | 106 |
| Michele Bachmann | I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness. | 106 |
| Rebel Wilson | Up until the age of 12, I went to dog shows every weekend. Mum showed beagles. It's a really competitive and eclectic world filled with characters who wear interesting outfits - similar to 'Toddlers & Tiaras,' but with dogs. | 106 |
| Sara Blakely | My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. | 106 |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. | 106 |
| Cal Ripken, Jr. | My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room. | 106 |
| Carol Vorderman | Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age. | 106 |
| Jordan Spieth | The generation that I'm in is extremely talented, and those that are still in school, my peers that are my age that will be out here really soon, you guys will see, will make a pretty easy transition on the PGA Tour. I don't think they will have a problem at all. The game is getting younger, and the game is getting better. | 106 |
| Robert Ballard | So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet. | 106 |
| Christine Lahti | I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested. | 106 |
| Samuel Ullman | Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. | 106 |
| John Paul DeJoria | I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special. | 106 |
| Andy Warhol | We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. | 107 |
| Dennis Prager | Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? | 107 |
| James Joyce | Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. | 107 |
| Carl Sandburg | I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. | 107 |
| Cesare Pavese | The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. | 107 |
| Christian Dior | You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe. | 107 |
| Curtis LeMay | We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age. | 107 |
| Daniel Goleman | People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature. | 107 |
| Dr. Dre | My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time. | 107 |
| Frank A. Clark | We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. | 107 |
| Henri Frederic Amiel | I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. | 107 |
| Horace Walpole | I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. | 107 |
| Joseph Addison | The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. | 107 |
| Lawrence Durrell | Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. | 107 |
| Magic Johnson | I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now. | 107 |
| Malcolm Muggeridge | One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. | 107 |
| Margot Robbie | I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love. | 107 |
| Mick Jagger | I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age. | 107 |
| Miranda Hart | I think, for a shy person - and I was very shy until my mid-20s - having been to an all-girls' school is not brilliant on the boyfriend front later. Because when I went to university, it was definitely like meeting a new species of people. Suddenly, at age 19, I was thinking: 'Can you speak to these people?' I was very, very nervous. | 107 |
| Nadia Comaneci | I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age. | 107 |
| Noel Coward | I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. | 107 |
| Peace Pilgrim | Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. | 107 |
| Regina Brett | Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple. | 107 |
| Rob Lowe | I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids. | 107 |
| Robbie Williams | I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything. | 107 |
| Shelley Duvall | I'm not afraid of aging. | 107 |
| Wilbur Smith | At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes. | 107 |
| Willie Geist | Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends. | 107 |
| Clarissa Pinkola Estes | I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself. | 107 |
| Courteney Cox | I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore. | 107 |
| Dayananda Saraswati | Compassion is not defined in one form. There's no Indian compassion. There's no American compassion. It transcends nation, the gender, the age. Why? Because it is there in everybody. It's experienced by people occasionally. | 107 |
| Jean Paul | What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. | 107 |
| Joan Collins | Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. | 107 |
| Rosemary Mahoney | When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age, that's not at all what blindness means. | 107 |
| Aimee Mullins | At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us. | 107 |
| Dianna Agron | Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it's better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it's hard to keep going. | 107 |
| Steve Buyer | From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny. | 107 |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. | 107 |
| George Orwell | In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. | 108 |
| Michel Foucault | 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. | 108 |
| Rodney Dangerfield | I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. | 108 |
| Margaret Mead | Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. | 108 |
| William Osler | The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. | 108 |
| Alexander McQueen | I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12. | 108 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. | 108 |
| Angela Carter | It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time. | 108 |
| Benjamin Spock | There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. | 108 |
| Brigitte Bardot | Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. | 108 |
| Erik Erikson | When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. | 108 |
| Fidel Castro | 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. | 108 |
| Harrison Ford | You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. | 108 |
| Jack White | I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles. | 108 |
| Jeff Buckley | The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals. | 108 |
| Jimmy Buffett | I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age. | 108 |
| Kim Cattrall | There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience. | 108 |
| Lucille Ball | The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. | 108 |
| Martha Graham | 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. | 108 |
| Naomi Wolf | In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.' | 108 |
| Paul Klee | 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. | 108 |
| Robertson Davies | A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. | 108 |
| Ryan Gosling | I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor. | 108 |
| Steve Irwin | The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue. | 108 |
| Tony Benn | Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you. | 108 |
| Andre Maurois | An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. | 108 |
| Dan Marino | I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is. | 108 |
| Francis Schaeffer | 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. | 108 |
| Martin Jacques | If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure. | 108 |
| Stewart Udall | In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history. | 108 |
| Alice Dreger | After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now. | 108 |
| Ann Hood | My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.' | 108 |
| Lascelles Abercrombie | 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. | 108 |
| Saina Nehwal | Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport. | 108 |
| Jane Seymour | People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says. | 108 |
| Paulina Porizkova | My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young. | 108 |
| Max Lerner | The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. | 108 |
| Salvador Dali | 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. | 109 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | 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. | 109 |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging. | 109 |
| Tom Stoppard | Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. | 109 |
| Arsene Wenger | At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence. | 109 |
| Barbara De Angelis | No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. | 109 |
| Bette Midler | After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. | 109 |
| Cate Blanchett | If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate. | 109 |
| David Mamet | Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. | 109 |
| Derek Jeter | For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doing it now, it amazes me. It's very impressive, it gives them something productive to do as opposed to getting in trouble. For them to take time out at such a young age is remarkable. I think all kids should take a little time out to volunteer. | 109 |
| F. Sionil Jose | Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost. | 109 |
| Felicia Day | Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged. | 109 |
| Frank Lampard | When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball. | 109 |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. | 109 |
| Helen Hayes | Age is not important unless you're a cheese. | 109 |
| Henry B. Eyring | In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose. | 109 |
| Ian Mckellen | When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers. | 109 |
| Leon Trotsky | Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. | 109 |
| Madame de Stael | When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. | 109 |
| Marjory Stoneman Douglas | I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just. | 109 |
| Paul Weller | The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it. | 109 |
| Pope Paul VI | In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. | 109 |
| Thomas Moore | What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. | 109 |
| Tom Wilson | Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. | 109 |
| Usher | Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play. | 109 |
| Vivek Wadhwa | The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job. | 109 |
| Beverly Sills | In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. | 109 |
| Cameron Diaz | I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait. | 109 |
| Jenny McCarthy | Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did. | 109 |
| John Wycliffe | Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel. | 109 |
| Jules Renard | It is not how old you are, but how you are old. | 109 |
| Ninon de L'Enclos | Old age is a woman's hell. | 109 |
| Sinclair Lewis | Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. | 109 |
| Arjun Rampal | Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced. | 109 |
| Eve Arnold | You should never reveal your true age. | 109 |
| Lana Parrilla | I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself. | 109 |
| Matt Smith | I'm awful at karaoke, but if I did have to sing, I'd go for my favourite Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The fact I love Frank is my grandfather's doing: he drummed it into me from a very early age that Frank Sinatra is God. | 109 |
| Andrew Shue | When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important. | 109 |
| Maureen O'Hara | I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11. | 109 |
| Muriel Spark | When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. | 109 |
| Sri Aurobindo | India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. | 109 |
| Dr. Seuss | Adults are obsolete children. | 110 |
| Henry Ford | Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. | 110 |
| Marshall McLuhan | In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. | 110 |
| Oprah Winfrey | I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. | 110 |
| Alan King | Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach. | 110 |
| ASAP Rocky | At the age of eight I started getting into fashion, brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica and Ralph Lauren. But in 2005 I started wearing John Richmond jeans. | 110 |
| Bernie Siegel | We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted. | 110 |
| Bonnie Raitt | I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder. | 110 |
| Dave Ramsey | Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully. | 110 |
| David Wilkerson | A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn. | 110 |
| Deepika Padukone | I don't think I am a star; I consider myself like any other girl who is of my age. Others may be working in office and doing different jobs. Similarly I don't think I am doing something different... I am also working. | 110 |
| Denis Leary | My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be. | 110 |
| Don Marquis | 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. | 110 |
| Elizabeth Wurtzel | People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty. | 110 |
| George Sand | Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. | 110 |
| Golda Meir | Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. | 110 |
| Graydon Carter | In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale. | 110 |
| Howard Schultz | I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream. | 110 |
| James Thurber | Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. | 110 |
| Michael Caine | Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think. | 110 |
| Olga Kurylenko | I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency. | 110 |
| Rick Riordan | Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy. | 110 |
| Robert Byrne | Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. | 110 |
| Rowan Williams | Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. | 110 |
| Sharon Stone | I feel more grounded and more settled than I ever have. I don't know whether that is to do with my spirituality or whether I'm wiser about life, but as you age you become more selective about what you listen to, devote your time to and who you hang out with. | 110 |
| Tom Hardy | I think I had only been working nine months when I got 'Star Trek,' and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that. | 110 |
| Tom Colicchio | You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV. | 110 |
| Twyla Tharp | This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. | 110 |
| Amitabh Bachchan | Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering. | 110 |
| Annie Dillard | The surest sign of age is loneliness. | 110 |
| Becky G | It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding. | 110 |
| J. B. Priestley | 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. | 110 |
| Janet Jackson | By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual. | 110 |
| Jim Bishop | At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. | 110 |
| Michael Shermer | But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. | 110 |
| Adora Svitak | Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age. | 110 |
| Bill Vaughan | Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. | 110 |
| Jewel | I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave. | 110 |
| Jose Mujica | I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us. | 110 |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. | 111 |
| Princess Diana | I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. | 111 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | What is an adult? A child blown up by age. | 111 |
| Daniel Craig | The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.' | 111 |
| Dave Pelzer | I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age. | 111 |
| Denis Leary | My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that. | 111 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed. | 111 |
| Giorgio Armani | I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best. | 111 |
| Gunter Grass | If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. | 111 |
| Timothy Leary | In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. | 111 |
| Tommy Hilfiger | My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status. | 111 |
| Vivien Leigh | 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. | 111 |
| Walter Scott | Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. | 111 |
| Barbara Corcoran | I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss. | 111 |
| Hosea Ballou | Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. | 111 |
| Janet Jackson | A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things. | 111 |
| Jeffrey Kluger | Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started. | 111 |
| Mary-Kate Olsen | I think it's really important to be able to talk when something's wrong. I learned at a really young age that if you don't talk about it, it can drive you insane. | 111 |
| Ryan Holmes | I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while farming and building a log home. So from a young age I knew the value of hard work. | 111 |
| Sarah McLachlan | We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings. | 111 |
| Wladimir Klitschko | I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing. | 111 |
| Cherie Lunghi | I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange. | 111 |
| Marcus Buckingham | Though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older. | 111 |
| Sigmund Freud | If youth knew; if age could. | 112 |
| B. F. Skinner | If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. | 112 |
| Charles de Montesquieu | It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. | 112 |
| Euripides | Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. | 112 |
| Alvin Toffler | The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46. | 112 |
| Benazir Bhutto | I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career. | 112 |
| Bette Davis | Old age is no place for sissies. | 112 |
| Charlotte Bronte | Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. | 112 |
| Damien Hirst | I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction. | 112 |
| George Burns | At my age flowers scare me. | 112 |
| Harrison Ford | I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office. | 112 |
| Jeremy Bentham | The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. | 112 |
| Jon Bon Jovi | There's a vintage which comes with age and experience. | 112 |
| Kim Cattrall | You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career? | 112 |
| Kirsten Dunst | I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways. | 112 |
| Lea Michele | Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since. | 112 |
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age. | 112 |
| Lysander Spooner | The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age. | 112 |
| Penelope Cruz | I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn. | 112 |
| Raymond Chandler | An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. | 112 |
| Sheryl Sandberg | Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy. | 112 |
| Twiggy | Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit. | 112 |
| Vivek Wadhwa | What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading. | 112 |
| William Ralph Inge | Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. | 112 |
| Brandon Boyd | I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. | 112 |
| Bruce Lipton | Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change. | 112 |
| W. H. Auden | 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. | 113 |
| Christian Dior | In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable. | 113 |
| Edith Wharton | Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. | 113 |
| Erich Fromm | Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? | 113 |
| Hugh Hefner | Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. | 113 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 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. | 113 |
| Keanu Reeves | 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. | 113 |
| Logan Pearsall Smith | The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. | 113 |
| Paramahansa Yogananda | The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy. | 113 |
| Patti Davis | It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago. | 113 |
| Paul Bloom | Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity. | 113 |
| Sean Connery | Some age, others mature. | 113 |
| Shawn Johnson | We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough. | 113 |
| Whitney Houston | 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 wait. | 113 |
| Alan Moore | I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself. | 113 |
| Jackie Joyner-Kersee | My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving. | 113 |
| Suzanne Somers | Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin. | 113 |
| Katharine Hepburn | Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age. | 114 |
| T. S. Eliot | 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. | 114 |
| Phyllis Diller | Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. | 114 |
| Bo Jackson | But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance. | 114 |
| Jerry Falwell | I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol. | 114 |
| L'Wren Scott | Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity. | 114 |
| Michael Phelps | This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence. | 114 |
| Navjot Singh Sidhu | Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. | 114 |
| Ralph Nader | Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. | 114 |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. | 114 |
| Sherman Alexie | My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. | 114 |
| Thomas Szasz | Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. | 114 |
| Washington Irving | A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. | 114 |
| Bruce Lipton | There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway. | 114 |
| Mary Schmich | Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. | 114 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. | 115 |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. | 115 |
| Dale Carnegie | Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. | 115 |
| Douglas MacArthur | Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. | 115 |
| Vivienne Westwood | 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. | 115 |
| Wayne Gretzky | 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. | 115 |
| Al Pacino | You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers. | 115 |
| Brigitte Bardot | It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. | 115 |
| Christopher Lee | When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding. | 115 |
| Doris Lessing | The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. | 115 |
| Douglas Coupland | We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date. | 115 |
| Elizabeth Taylor | I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get. | 115 |
| Graham Greene | Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. | 115 |
| Lindsay Lohan | I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back. | 115 |
| Rowan Atkinson | No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12. | 115 |
| Salma Hayek | I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age. | 115 |
| Willard Scott | I get all fired up about aging in America. | 115 |
| William Feather | Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. | 115 |
| Yotam Ottolenghi | For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade. | 115 |
| J. B. Priestley | The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. | 115 |
| John le Carre | I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price. | 115 |
| Joshua Foer | One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. | 115 |
| James Buchan | There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. | 115 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. | 116 |
| Robert Frost | A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. | 116 |
| Warren Buffett | Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. | 116 |
| Ann Coulter | Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster. | 116 |
| George MacDonald | Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. | 116 |
| Ginger Rogers | At the age of ten, I thought if a boy kissed you on the lips, you would have a baby, and I surely wasn't the only youngster who believed that! | 116 |
| Jimmy Buffett | I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. | 116 |
| Josh Billings | I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. | 116 |
| Kim Cattrall | I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age. | 116 |
| Lindsay Lohan | This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life. | 116 |
| Louisa May Alcott | Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. | 116 |
| Mindy Kaling | 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. | 116 |
| Rose Kennedy | I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat. | 116 |
| Sophia Bush | Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. | 116 |
| Thomas Hardy | 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. | 116 |
| Zlatan Ibrahimovic | I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.' | 116 |
| Cameron Diaz | I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows. | 116 |
| Joan Jett | I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules. | 116 |
| H. L. Mencken | The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. | 117 |
| Anais Nin | Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. | 117 |
| Coco Chanel | Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. | 117 |
| John Adams | Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. | 117 |
| Alice Walker | I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe. | 117 |
| Ani DiFranco | I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. | 117 |
| Gertrude Stein | We are always the same age inside. | 117 |
| John Mayer | You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. | 117 |
| Ogden Nash | 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. | 117 |
| Rand Paul | I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere. | 117 |
| Apolo Ohno | I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12. | 117 |
| J. B. Priestley | Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. | 117 |
| Jane Fonda | We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic. | 117 |
| Charles Dickens | The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. | 118 |
| Ernest Hemingway | Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. | 118 |
| Francis Bacon | I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. | 118 |
| Gary Vaynerchuk | IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones. | 118 |
| Soren Kierkegaard | Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. | 118 |
| Victor Hugo | Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. | 118 |
| James Joyce | 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. | 118 |
| Michelangelo | Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him. | 118 |
| Casey Stengel | The trick is growing up without growing old. | 118 |
| Damien Hirst | Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though. | 118 |
| Elton John | And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. | 118 |
| Eric Hoffer | It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. | 118 |
| Kirsten Dunst | If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?' | 118 |
| Sydney J. Harris | Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?' | 118 |
| Wale | All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it. | 118 |
| William Feather | One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. | 118 |
| Jane Fonda | We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. | 118 |
| Victor Hugo | When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. | 119 |
| Iyanla Vanzant | I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility. | 119 |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. | 119 |
| Margaret Mead | It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. | 119 |
| Billy Joel | I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. | 119 |
| Judy Garland | I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot. | 119 |
| Julia Roberts | Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. | 119 |
| Naveen Jain | As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem. | 119 |
| Patti Smith | We tried not to age, but time had its rage. | 119 |
| Amos Bronson Alcott | While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. | 119 |
| Annie Lennox | 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 elderly people. | 119 |
| Jose Ortega y Gasset | Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. | 119 |
| Bjork | I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency. | 120 |
| Sophocles | A man growing old becomes a child again. | 120 |
| Ben Stein | 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. | 120 |
| George Burns | I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill. | 120 |
| Shimon Peres | The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. | 120 |
| Sophia Loren | There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. | 120 |
| Wiz Khalifa | The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz. | 120 |
| Andre Maurois | Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. | 120 |
| Avril Lavigne | I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. | 120 |
| Robert Mugabe | We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. | 121 |
| Virginia Woolf | It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. | 121 |
| Margaret Atwood | Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. | 121 |
| Oprah Winfrey | Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. | 121 |
| Bernard Baruch | Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. | 121 |
| Douglas Horton | Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age. | 121 |
| George Burns | Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. | 121 |
| Haruki Murakami | When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly. | 121 |
| Nicolas Chamfort | Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. | 121 |
| Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. | 121 |
| Tony Robbins | We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age. | 122 |
| Alan Alda | When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000? | 122 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 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. | 122 |
| Bob Hope | Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. | 122 |
| 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. | 122 |
| Sharon Stone | I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago. | 122 |
| Shimon Peres | What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism. | 122 |
| Yoko Ono | When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all. | 122 |
| Amy Chua | The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was China's golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by today's standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in 'barbarians' from the steppe. | 122 |
| Edmund Burke | The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. | 123 |
| Margaret Mead | As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. | 123 |
| Marshall McLuhan | American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. | 123 |
| William Wordsworth | But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. | 123 |
| Don Marquis | Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. | 123 |
| George Burns | I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. | 123 |
| Vin Diesel | With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug. | 123 |
| William J. Clinton | I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself. | 123 |
| Doug Larson | The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. | 123 |
| Jennifer Love Hewitt | When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak. | 123 |
| Alexander Hamilton | Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. | 124 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. | 124 |
| Bernard Baruch | To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. | 124 |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything. | 124 |
| George Burns | Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere. | 124 |
| Rita Rudner | 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. | 124 |
| Francis Bacon | Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. | 125 |
| Nas | With age comes common sense and wisdom. | 125 |
| John Ruskin | No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. | 125 |
| Agatha Christie | An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. | 125 |
| Fred Allen | 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. | 125 |
| George Burns | Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. | 125 |
| Howard Schultz | At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that. | 125 |
| Seth Shostak | I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films. | 125 |
| Stevie Wonder | Minds ripen at very different ages. | 125 |
| J. B. Priestley | We pay when old for the excesses of youth. | 125 |
| Jean Paul | Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. | 125 |
| Anna Held | A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married. | 125 |
| Eddie Vedder | I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it. | 126 |
| George Lucas | To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again? | 126 |
| Rafael Nadal | I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment. | 126 |
| Edmund Burke | But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. | 201 |
| Princess Diana | The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. | 201 |
| Herman Melville | Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. | 201 |
| Muhammad Ali | Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. | 202 |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Age considers; youth ventures. | 202 |
| ASAP Rocky | I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions. | 202 |
| Robert Green Ingersoll | It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. | 202 |
| C. S. Lewis | Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. | 203 |
| Isaac Newton | To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you. | 203 |
| Dave Grohl | In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing. | 203 |
| Nicki Minaj | I've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13. | 204 |
| Salma Hayek | You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that. | 204 |
| Emily Dickinson | I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision. | 205 |
| Dave Barry | The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. | 205 |
| John Dryden | Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. | 205 |
| Clint Eastwood | I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. | 206 |
| Gloria Steinem | Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave. | 206 |
| Golda Meir | Being seventy is not a sin. | 206 |
| Isabel Allende | 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. | 206 |
| John Cena | I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didn't fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger. | 206 |
| Pierre Corneille | Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! | 206 |
| Christopher Hitchens | Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. | 207 |
| Daniel Radcliffe | I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person. | 207 |
| Joan Rivers | Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I'm very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something. | 207 |
| Matthew McConaughey | I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island. | 207 |
| Bill Gates | Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing. | 208 |
| Dave Barry | The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. | 208 |
| Margaret Atwood | I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back. | 208 |
| Ashton Kutcher | We haven't lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it. In doing so, antiquated art forms are taking on new importance. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. | 208 |
| Plato | He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. | 209 |
| Elon Musk | If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. | 209 |
| Emily Dickinson | Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. | 209 |
| Carrie Underwood | American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything. | 209 |
| William Wordsworth | The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. | 210 |
| Helen Rowland | There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. | 210 |
| Queen Latifah | As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot. | 210 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. | 211 |
| Clint Eastwood | There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65. | 211 |
| Karl Marx | The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. | 211 |
| Lord Byron | This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. | 211 |
| Soren Kierkegaard | Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. | 211 |
| Wayne Dyer | Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all. | 211 |
| Coco Chanel | A woman has the age she deserves. | 212 |
| Colin Powell | Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age. | 212 |
| Cara Delevingne | When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit. | 212 |
| 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. | 213 |
| Brad Pitt | I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?' | 213 |
| Charles Caleb Colton | The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. | 213 |
| Albert Einstein | Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. | 215 |
| Erma Bombeck | Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. | 215 |
| J. K. Rowling | Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. | 215 |
| Don Marquis | Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. | 215 |
| Thomas Carlyle | It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. | 215 |
| Mark Twain | Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. | 216 |
| Aldous Huxley | The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. | 216 |
| Pearl S. Buck | We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. | 216 |
| Sophocles | Old age and the passage of time teach all things. | 217 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 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. | 218 |
| Kurt Cobain | My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. | 218 |
| Confucius | Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. | 219 |
| J. Cole | I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies. | 219 |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. | 219 |
| Orson Welles | The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. | 219 |
| Anne Lamott | 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. | 219 |
| Albert Einstein | Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. | 220 |
| Henry David Thoreau | None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. | 220 |
| Charles de Gaulle | Old age is a shipwreck. | 220 |
| Mason Cooley | The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head. | 220 |
| Mignon McLaughlin | There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. | 220 |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. | 221 |
| Billy Graham | There's a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we're to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we're close to the end of the age. | 221 |
| Christopher Hitchens | '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. | 221 |
| Mignon McLaughlin | A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. | 221 |
| Ronald Reagan | Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. | 222 |
| Billy Graham | When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ. | 222 |
| Lou Holtz | At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week. | 222 |
| Michel de Montaigne | Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. | 222 |
| David Bowie | 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 survive on word of mouth. | 223 |
| Deepak Chopra | New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture. | 223 |
| George Orwell | Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. | 223 |
| Helen Keller | The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. | 224 |
| Maya Angelou | Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. | 224 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. | 225 |
| Mason Cooley | Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. | 225 |
| C. S. Lewis | How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. | 226 |
| Billy Graham | I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually. | 226 |
| Donald Trump | My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did my mother. I believe that I just have it from my father, from my parents. They had wonderful energy. | 302 |
| Taylor Swift | I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me. | 302 |
| Mark Twain | Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. | 303 |
| William James | 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. | 303 |
| Bill Cosby | I managed my life to the point that at age 19 I was still in high school. I decided I was too old to be walking down those hallways. | 304 |
| Voltaire | What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. | 305 |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. | 305 |
| H. L. Mencken | Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. | 306 |
| Muhammad Ali | Old age is just a record of one's whole life. | 308 |
| Bertrand Russell | Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. | 308 |
| Benjamin Franklin | At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. | 309 |
| Bertrand Russell | It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. | 309 |
| Ronald Reagan | Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. | 310 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret. | 310 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive. | 310 |
| Lord Byron | What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. | 311 |
| Groucho Marx | I must confess, I was born at a very early age. | 312 |
| Terry Pratchett | We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still. | 313 |
| Oscar Wilde | The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. | 314 |
| Jonathan Swift | Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. | 315 |
| Bertrand Russell | To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. | 316 |
| Eminem | The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids. | 317 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. | 320 |
| Pope Francis | It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one. | 320 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence. | 321 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. | 322 |
| David Bowie | Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am. | 323 |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. | 323 |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. | 325 |
| John F. Kennedy | We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. | 326 |
| Francis Bacon | Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. | 401 |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. | 401 |
| Maya Angelou | I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96. | 402 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 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. | 402 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Every man over forty is a scoundrel. | 402 |
| Paulo Coelho | Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. | 402 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. | 405 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. | 410 |
| Abraham Lincoln | My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all. | 411 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. | 412 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. | 415 |
| Aristotle | Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. | 416 |
| Henry Rollins | I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity. | 425 |
| Voltaire | He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. | 426 |
| Marilyn Monroe | Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. | 504 |
| Albert Camus | Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. | 506 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | All diseases run into one, old age. | 508 |
| Steven Wright | How young can you die of old age? | 509 |
| Oscar Wilde | No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. | 511 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Age merely shows what children we remain. | 522 |
| Thomas Jefferson | In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. | 523 |
| Albert Einstein | Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. | 525 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. | 525 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Youth is wasted on the young. | 618 |
| Oscar Wilde | The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. | 709 |
| Mark Twain | Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. | 803 |
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