"At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."

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"At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Age, Time, Teaching

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Age, Old

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Age, Old, Prudence, Youth

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Age, Hesitation, Risk

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Age, Power, Admiration, Ideology

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Age, Being, Certainty, Hesitation

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Age, Woman

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Age, Individuality, Question

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Age, Men, Middleage, Nurses

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Age, Society, Money, Class

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"Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information."

Courage

"At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."

Age

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."

Children

"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."

Thought

"The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought."

Religion

"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."

People

"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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"I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic."

"The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us."

"Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique."

"Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information."

"At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."

"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."

"The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought."

"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."

"Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."