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" Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. "

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" Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. "

Booth Tarkington

" Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. "

" No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. "

" In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. "

" Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age. "

" Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change. "

" There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me the clearest example is that the more retirement fund options a person has, the less likely they are to save for their old age. "

" 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

" Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. "

J. B. Priestley

" This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. "

" My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. "

" The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green? "

" I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor. "

" My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. "

" If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. "

" As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher. "

" One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. "

" Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. "

" I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age. "

" Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. "

" I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. "

" Age merely shows what children we remain. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business. "

" Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself. "

" Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. "

" When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. "

" In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame. "

" In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth. "

" It's easy to make a cue last a lifetime. Don't boil it or freeze it in the trunk of a car. Don't lean it against a wall for years. If you lose a game to a complete idiot, hit the edge of the table in anger with something other than your cue. "