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Age Quotes


"There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age."


"You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman."


"Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria."


"Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age."


"It must be around forty, when you're 'over the hill.' I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned."


"There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age."


"Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience."


"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."



"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."



"We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff."


"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."


"The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me."


"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."


"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."


"This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism."


"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."


"I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is."


"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."



"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."


"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."



"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."


"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."


"The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'."



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


"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."
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