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" Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. "
Alfred Nobel
Agriculture
Second
Our
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" 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
You
Happiness
Constitution
" I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves. "
Kate Spade
She
Vintage
Pink
" When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity. "
Maria Montessori
Age
Child
Fitness
" 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. "
John Ruskin
Knight
Age
Purpose
" My son is getting close to the age that I remember watching Scrooge, and as he loves to be scared, I can't wait to start my favorite holiday tradition all over again with him. "
Molly O'Keefe
Son
Wait
Start
" I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today. "
Carol Burnett
Stars
Time
Today
" In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters. "
Eduardo Galeano
Drones
Never
Names
" My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. "
Warren Beatty
Age
Wife
Two
" There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that. "
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Tend
Like
Schizophrenia
" What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Hard
Burden
Age
" Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? "
Erich Fromm
Age
Children
Education
" 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. "
Louise Nurding
You
Mistake
Age
" Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect. "
Earl Wilson
Than
Think
You
" Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. "
Martha Gellhorn
Feel
Age
People
" Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. "
Phyllis Diller
Through
Show
Old Age
" I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me. "
Jenny Eclair
Vision
Job
Age
" Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed. "
Ezra Taft Benson
Time
Age
Good
" If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon! "
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Age
You
Someone
" The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. "
Colleen McCullough
You
Forty
Lovely
" To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again? "
George Lucas
Everything
Youth
Back
" Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form. "
Kehinde Wiley
Art
Image
Digital
" What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. "
Robert Browning
Age
Youth
Out
" I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I'd discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, 'Damn - I'm too old for this.' "
Paul Walker
Wish
Thought
Sports
" 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
Depression
Character
Age
" Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. "
Henry Ford
Young
Life
Mind
" One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. "
Thomas Arnold
Life
Men
Age
" Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. "
Maya Angelou
Age
Loving
Someone
" 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. "
Jon Hamm
Age
Life
Live
" Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. "
Ronald Reagan
Never
Age
Judge
" That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people. "
Ja Rule
Think
People
Youth