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The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

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.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.

The heart has no wrinkles.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so.

The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used for birthday parties and for things like booster sales.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

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

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

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.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.