"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life."
"I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back."
"When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s."
"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."
"I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony."
"Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress."
"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."
"I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age."
"Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire."
"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."
"At my age flowers scare me."
"We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races."
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act."
"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age."
"The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons."
"Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves."
"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."
"With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal."
"Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons."
"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."
"Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past."
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."
"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."
"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."
"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."
"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind."
"All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step."