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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Age, Death, Old, Pain

"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Age, Men, Forget, Old

"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Age, Aging, Virginity, Wisdom, Respect

"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Age, Mind

"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

Age, Class, End, Interest

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

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Age, Individuality, Question

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

Age, Character, Man

"Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone."

Jim Fiebig, American Author

Age, Disappointment, Extreme

"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Age, Censure, Folly, Man

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

Age, Business, Dad, Cows

Explore more quotes by Cilla Black

"The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in."

Advice

"I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was."

Biography

"Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move."

Career

"But reality television is here to stay."

Reality

"It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control."

People

"I humbly apologise for reality Television."

Reality

"Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date."

Blind

"The difference with me is that I did inhale."

Difference

"The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like."

Age