Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at mo...
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and cal...
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live...
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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