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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Virginia Woolf
It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.
Patty Berg, on her 80th birthday
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care
William Shakespeare
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
Haruki Murakami
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
William Ernest Hocking, Wisdom f
The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn
No man is ever old enough to know better.
Holbrook Jackson, "Ladies' Home
Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
John Legend
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
Henry David Thoreau
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Mason Cooley
Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
Lionel Blue
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.
Blaise Pascal
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
Frances Conroy
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Michel de Montaigne
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell
