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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

It is a great thing to be at your age... You are at a very specific time of age ... an age where you can follow all your dreams. But also at an age when you can change-you can change your dreams, you can change paths. When you start something when you're young, you should not decide 'this is it, this is my way and I will go all the way.' You have the age where you can change. You get experience, and maybe dislike it and go another way. Your age is still an age of exploration.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

It is always the season for the old to learn.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.

It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

It is charming to totter into vogue.

It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.

It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

It is folly alone that stays the fugue of Youth and beats off touring Old Age.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

It is hard to notice age in those who dream.

It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.

It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.

It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.

It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.

It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.

It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.