O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. Richard M. Nixon
Age does not matter if the matter does not age. Jean Paul
I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth. David Bowie
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. David Herbert Lawrence
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. David Herbert Lawrence
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. Doug Coupland
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. Theodor Adorno
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. Paul Cezanne
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly? King Abdullah II
Women lie about their age men lie about their income. William Feather
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. Liz Carpenter
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. Randall Jarrell
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going. J. B. Priestley
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? Desiderius Erasmus
Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. Christopher Hitchens
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. Christopher Hitchens
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. Gustave Flaubert
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. Vivien Leigh