"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."
"Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen."
"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."
"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young."
"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."
"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."
"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
"Every age has its happiness and troubles."
"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."
"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."
"All diseases run into one, old age."
"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."
"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."
"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."
"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."
"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."
"A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience."
"Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age."
"When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission."
"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."
"You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse."
"Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age."
"Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70."
"In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too."
"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."
"I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth."
"I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college."
"We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation."