“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.”
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Voices on age
“A man growing old becomes a child again.”
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“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.”
“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.”
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
“If youth knew; if age could.”
“Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.”
“Not even old age knows how to love death.”
“You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.”
“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.”
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
“Old age is fifteen years older than I am.”
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
“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.”
“The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.”
“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.”
“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.”
“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.”
“The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
“At my age flowers scare me.”