“I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.”
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“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.”
“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.”
“There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.”
“If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.”
“I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.”
“It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.”
“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”
“What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”
“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.”
“Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.”
“We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.”
“I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young 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.”
“I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.”
“Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'”
“Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.”
“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.”
“Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.”
“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”
“The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.”
“Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.”
“There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.”
“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.”