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

Age, Men, Middleage, Nurses

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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

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"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

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"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

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"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

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"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

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"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."

Glenn Frey, American Musician

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"Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it."

Terry Jones, British Comedian

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"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

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"The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure, it's a little like making love, the physical act of love."

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"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."

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"The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other."

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