“The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.”
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“Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.”
“I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.”
“Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.”
“Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.”
“What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.”
“I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.”
“I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.”
“I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.”
“Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.”
“We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.”
“I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.”
“Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.”
“You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.”
“We tried not to age, but time had its rage.”
“I want to age with some dignity.”
“This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.”
“Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.”
“I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.”
“Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.”
“There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.”
“Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.”
“What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.”
“Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.”