"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.'"
"Women lie about their age; men lie about their income."
"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."
"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?"
"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
"I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public."
"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself."
"In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose."
"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."
"As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage."
"Old age is the verdict of life."
"Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age."
"There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age."
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
"God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."
"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."
"I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere."
"Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person."
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."
"No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience."
"Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty."
"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."
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."
"Age is a matter of feeling, not of years."
"Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age."
"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."
"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
"It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America."
"I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me."