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The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August. God, middle age is an unending insult.

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.

The first major issue you need to consider when focusing on today's workers: You have to know what motivates them. If you think it's primarily money, think again. The biggest single change in the workforce of the entrepreneurial age is the list of priorities workers bring to the job. Except paycheck there are new considerations: impact, freedom, quality of life. Employees today have higher expectations; they are looking for what I call "psychic equity". Make your workplace more entrepreneurial and flexible or find your workers fleeing to launch enterprises of their own.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this combination, and whoever does not consider a revolution important unless it is blatant and palpable, has not yet risen to the lofty and broad vantage point of the history of mankind.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must take care of their Bibles, that they be not mutilated or curtailed by lawless criticism; they must take care of their theology, that it be not perverted by false philosophy; and they must take care of their pulpits, that they be not occupied by heretical, unspiritual, or incompetent ministers.

The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.

The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?

The Golden Age of Secularism has passed.

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

The Golden Age was never the present age.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

The great coming to age of cable is really a beautiful thing. No commercials. It's like a small theater. It's a cinema on a TV screen.

The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz was the deep student and fierce competitor to the end of his career.

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

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

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.