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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling on age

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer on age

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
Courteney Cox on age

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
Robert Mugabe on age

Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.
Sophia Bush on age

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson on age

Old age is the verdict of life.
Amelia Barr on age

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana on age

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot on age

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Andre Gide on age

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Joseph Addison on age

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Franklin P. Adams on 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.
Simone de Beauvoir on age

I don't care about age very much.
Chinua Achebe on age

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Sophocles on age

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard on age

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
Albert Ellis on age

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
Russell Baker on age

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin P. Adams on age

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
Mason Cooley on age