Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. John Ruskin
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. Richard Dawkins
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. William Butler Yeats
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. Mason Cooley
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. Gore Vidal
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Jack Benny
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. Martha Graham
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun. George W. Bush
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. Henry Miller
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. Frank Lloyd Wright
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. Samuel Johnson
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. Michel de Montaigne
I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13. Richard Dawkins
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. W. Somerset Maugham
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. Noel Coward
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. Will Durant
And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust. Elton John