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Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.
We can reveal that John's 85 That's a well known fact Telling Kathy's age would be a breach Of the Official Secrets Act
Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!
We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.
You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about.
I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.
TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.
Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
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.
Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?
I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me.
Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.
The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud.
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there
My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?
I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.
I've become less angry and a little more humble by age and by experience and by going through the ups and downs of life.
We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.
The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.
I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.
Between the ages of 30 and 40 was the time when both my spirit and body were young and powerful and I could do anything!
Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?
You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.
I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction."
Hillary Clinton has held vast dreams. She was inspired at a young age that society does well when women and children do.
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.
The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.
I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.
I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.
The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.