“Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.”
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“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”
“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”
“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.”
“I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.”
“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”
“Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.”
“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”
“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.”
“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
“Youth has no age.”
“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”
“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”
“Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.”
“The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.”
“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.”
“I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.”
“It is not well to make great changes in old age.”
“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”
“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.”
“Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”