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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
Mason Cooley on age

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Mason Cooley on age

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
Francis Schaeffer on age

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia Woolf on age

Not even old age knows how to love death.
Sophocles on age

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
Ben Stein on age

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
Fidel Castro on age

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving on age

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton on age

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
John Irving on age

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood on age

Age carries all things away, even the mind.
Virgil on age

Age steals away all things, even the mind.
Virgil on age

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
Lady Gaga on age

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Baltasar Gracian on age

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
Marshall McLuhan on age

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Charles Caleb Colton on age

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Satyajit Ray on age

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
George Burns on age

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
George Burns on age