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Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.
Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.
I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
Everyone always says it's a blessing to look a lot younger than my age, but sometimes I just want to look my real age.
Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.
I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.
What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.
That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.
Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!
This is such a pivotal moment in my life! I'm transitioning as a woman, and I'm finally able to express myself as I am.
It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.
Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.
The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.
For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
Cuddly toy rabbits were a real comfort for all of my babies - once they got to a certain age they would nuzzle the fur.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.
Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.
Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.
Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.
Cultivate your sense of humour. On life's journey from nappy rash to denture adhesive, humour is a great pain reliever.
Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.
I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it.
Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.