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One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.
I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going.
I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .
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 Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.
I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.
There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.
The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.
Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand.
The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.
I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.
Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.
That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.
But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
The wrinkles in my brow, The furrows in my face, Say, limping age will lodge him now Where youth must give him place.
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age.
The members of the Mystery school, during the time of Atlantis, had psychically seen the subsequent ages of darkness.
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.
I'm not saying that we need more stories about people of a certain age, we just need more great stories about people.
We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.
My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.
In framing a system, which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce.
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.