"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."
"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."
"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."
"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."
"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."
"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."
"The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'"
"Politics is the one field you don't age out of."
"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."
"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."
"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."
"I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age."
"To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age."
"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."
"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
"People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature."
"We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band."
"I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi."
"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."
"You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?"
"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."
"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."
"Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think."
"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."
"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily."
"Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher."
"Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be."
"There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age."
"I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity."
"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."