"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."

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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

"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

"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

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Age, Experience, Errors, Light

"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Age, Youth

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"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."

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"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

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"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

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"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

"If youth knew; if age could."

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"The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it."

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."

"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."

"We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap."

"We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap."

"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."

"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."

"Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man."