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" Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. "

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" Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. "

" Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. "

" I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96. "

" The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. "

" Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. "

" Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. "

Washington Irving

" A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing. "

" Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. "

" Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. "

" It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America. "

" All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world? "

" Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die. "

Martin Seligman

" Chinese people age overnight. "

Karl Pilkington

" I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. "

" We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. "

John F. Kennedy

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" Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age. "

" The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. "

" Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. "

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

" What is an adult? A child blown up by age. "

Simone de Beauvoir

" I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. "

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

" Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. "

E. Joseph Cossman

" 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. "

" Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. "

" The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. "

Charles Dickens

" No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12. "