“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”
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“The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.”
“Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.”
“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”
“If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.”
“Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.”
“I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.”
“As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.”
“There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.”
“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”
“I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.”
“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
“Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.”
“Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.”
“Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.”
“No lie ever reaches old age.”
“Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.”
“The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.”
“You should not consider a man's age but his acts.”
“I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.”
“It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.”
“There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.”
“Old age and the passage of time teach all things.”
“Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.”