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" There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. "

" You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers. "

" He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. "

" Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. "

" Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

" Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. "

" We lived in the schoolhouse of the village school in Church Preen, in deepest Shropshire, and my mum was the schoolmistress. She taught the juniors, and one other teacher taught the infants. I went there from the age of three, no doubt as a form of childcare. "

" Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age. "

Aung San Suu Kyi

" I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap. "

" The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. "

" Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere. "

" It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. "

" I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working. "

" As men get older, the toys get more expensive. "

" In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age. "

" Laughter crosses boundaries of class and age... Humour is universal. "

" Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire. "

" Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. "

" Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends. "

Macaulay Culkin

" My first albums as a little kid were Elton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,' Simon and Garfunkel's 'Greatest Hits' - and 'Workingman's Dead.' How many other people still listen to the music they liked at age 12? "

" 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

" By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them. "

" 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. "

" We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date. "

Douglas Coupland

" You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. People had such a boundless sense of optimism; They felt they could do anything they wanted to do, and they went out and tried to do it. "