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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 on age

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Simone de Beauvoir on age

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Richard Dawkins on age

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
William Butler Yeats on age

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Mason Cooley on age

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 on age

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 on age

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny on age

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha Graham on age

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
George W. Bush on age

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 on age

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 on age

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 on age

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Michel de Montaigne on age

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
Richard Dawkins on age

Love has no age, no limit and no death.
John Galsworthy on age

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 on age

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 on age

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 on age

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.
Elton John on age