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The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.

The old men know when an old man dies.

The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.

The older you get, the more important it is to not act your age.

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

The older I get, the better I was.

The older I get, the more I feel.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

The older you are, the more you have to offer. Life begins at 40 and it just gets better and better.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, "How many roles are there for someone my age?

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

The only thing I have ever been asked [by a pollster] was the age at which I first indulged in oral sex (which, since it was a Yale Daily News poll, meant kissing).

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.

The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.

The oral (Laetrile) had been 'toxified' by adding cyano-urea in the NCI...(NCI's) Mayo (Clinic) dismissed well responding patients to discard them from statistical evaluation...This kind of fraud which I expressed...and which was openly published...has...not resulted in any denial.

The other major kind of computer is the "Apple," which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer you basically just plug in and use.

Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.

The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

The other thing is that women my age know that looks are only skin deep. They don't matter. What matters is who you are. Hopefully at the end of the day, you're a good person. That's what counts.

The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.

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

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

The people in Coming of Age were far less curmudgeonly than you would think. The greater percentage said that without the young we'd be lost. One woman, a former Southern belle, now 87, a philanthropist, says, "Well, these young, their history's been stolen from them. And what have we done to make them respect us?

The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession.

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

The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all... Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse.

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.