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A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.

A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.

A woman has the age she deserves.

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

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

A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

A young choreographer often gets hung up on thinking they have to have all the answers. As a choreographer ages, they realize that they're more of a steward to movement. We mold movement and curate and form it into plausible and understandable stories.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

A world's full of broken hearts. That's all this is. I wondered if there was anyone above the age of say, 18, in the world who hadn't had their hearts broken at some point.

A young man's ambition - to get along in the world and make a place for himself - half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

Baby boom generation in China will start to hit retirement age in the very next few years, let's say by the end of this decade.

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?

Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

Bands now are always trying to make their presence known through social networking and whatnot, but that's just the same as bands before the Internet age trying to connect with fans in some other way. But I don't follow people on Facebook, I think that's creepy. I wouldn't want them following me on Facebook. I don't even have a mailing list.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.

Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk.

Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading.

Because of my age, the roles that I'm in doesn't have as much depth as I would like, but that will change. Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, they play heavy, meaty roles, which are the sort that I want to play...because of what I look like, I play with my looks, which is cool, but I've done it so many times. But one day I would love to play against my looks.

Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my family and loved ones, I'm starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There's a darkness inside of me that I'm only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it's starting to scare me.

Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.