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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

Age, Error, Old

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

Age, People, Middleage

"Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think."

Michael Caine, English Actor

Age, Money, Old

"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer."

Carol Bellamy, American Educator

Age, Change, Children, Completion

"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Age, Aging, Youth, Gender, Desire

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Age, Man, Youth

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Age, Service

"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."

Rob Lowe, American Actor

Age, Successful, Being

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Age, Woman

"You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."

Walker Percy, American Writer

Age, Idea, Man

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"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."

Language

"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life."

Life

"To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war."

Peace

"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."

Life

"The age of the book is almost gone."

Age

"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."

Genius

"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."

Vision

"There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness."

Cultural

"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."

Work

"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."

Heart