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" From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. "

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" After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces. "

Rhys Darby

Remember

Old Age

" In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter. "

" Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. "

" They say eyes clear with age. "

" Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. "

" The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old Age

Blessing

Age

" At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework. "

" There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril. "

Stanley A. McChrystal

Today

Age

Environment

" We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. "

" It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance. "

" The fact that I've lived this long is not really an achievement. Time passes; we age... it's natural. This is why it annoys me when a person watches a movie and tells me that it was 'time pass.' Would time not have passed if he hadn't watched the film? "

Kamal Haasan

Age

Achievement

" Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age. "

" If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. "

" Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. "

" No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. "

" It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. "

" Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. "

" I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. "

" I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. "

" It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. "

William James

World

Age

" While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. "

" When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. "

" Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it. "

" In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching. "

" People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day. "

" I think we make a common mistake of all wanting to look younger, and I think there is nothing more attractive, charming and endearing than when you meet a woman and you think she looks amazing for her age rather than 20 years younger because of this, that and everything else. "

" The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. "

" Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. "

" Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. "

" At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. "