"Age, like distance lends a double charm."

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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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"What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan."

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"Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you."

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"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."

Nationality

"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well."

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"Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings."

Dogs

"Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember."

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"A man is known by the silence he keeps."

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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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"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often."

"Age, like distance lends a double charm."

"There is always room at the top - after the investigation."

"What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan."

"Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you."

"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."

"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well."

"Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings."

"Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember."

"A man is known by the silence he keeps."