“To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.”
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“Age is not important unless you're a cheese.”
“A woman has the age she deserves.”
“Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.”
“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”
“I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.”
“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
“Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.”
“I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.”
“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”
“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”
“I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.”
“Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.”
“Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.”
“Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.”
“Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.”
“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”
“I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.”
“Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.”
“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.”
“For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”