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Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame. No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing! There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art. Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. Age does not matter if the matter does not age. No age seemed the age of romance to itself. All the great ages have been ages of belief. Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age. A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter. In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination. We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools. The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded. Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be. Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. The surest sign of age is loneliness. - Alcott Amos Bronson Age will not be defied. Old age is the verdict of life. Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives. Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. Keep on raging -- to stop the aging. Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. If youth knew; if age could. Old age is a shipwreck. Age is not important unless you're a cheese. The worst old age is that of the mind. Age, like distance lends a double charm. Wrecked on the lee shore of age. Talking is the disease of age. O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet. Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. Minds ripen at very different ages. Live your life and forget your age. A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. Old age though despised, is coveted by all. Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. Age considers; youth ventures. All diseases run into one. Old age. Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. Education is the best provision for old age. About the only thing that comes without effort is old age. Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. To create a little flower is the labor of ages. We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly. The golden age is before us, not behind us. Age is a high price to pay for maturity. Age withers only the outside. Age carries all things away, even the mind. There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. Old wine and friends improve with age. Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. |





