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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.
Sex is great, but when you get to be my age, you've got to pace it a little bit. Otherwise you get tired.
I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.
I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age'.
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
We don't have to wait until we are old to gather the riches... We can gather them every day of our lives.
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
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.
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
You are neither better nor worse than anyone else. I learned at a young age how to maintain this balance.
In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?
... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.
Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.
Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl
Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
I was fascinated by The Lord of the Rings from about the age of eight and that lasted well into my teens.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.
Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.
Every day in every way, I am increasing my mental and physical capacity. I am reversing my biological age.
He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.
I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.
in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.
I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding.