The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. Orson Welles
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. Charles Kingsley
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. William Blake
Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. Chuck Palahniuk
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. Lord Byron
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. William Wordsworth
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. Charles Dickens
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. Peace Pilgrim
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. Mary Schmich
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. Francis Bacon
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. Billy Joel
Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster. Ann Coulter
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. George Burns
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. Andre Maurois
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. W. Somerset Maugham
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. Phyllis Diller
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. Arthur Schopenhauer
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. Bo Bennett