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Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult....Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems.

Act your age, not your shoe size.

A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring through the booklet of lyrics and liner notes. The digital age has removed us from the tactile experience of what it meant to listen to an album.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

Afflictions clarify the soul; And like hard masters, give more hard directions, Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.

After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.

After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate.

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now.

After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Age doesn't make a man.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

Age is a number on a piece of paper.

Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.

Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

Age is just a number for me! A person is as young as he feels.