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I don't need you to remind me of my age, I have a bladder to do that for me.
Stephen Fry
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Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
Frank Pittman
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Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!…whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age…Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Of Oxford
Matthew Arnold
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
Horace Walpole
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Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead centre of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams
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Age is not all decay; it is the ripening,
the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.
George MacDonald
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The age of Chivalry has gone. An age of Humanity has come. The Horse, whose importance more than human, have the name to that early period of gallantry and war, now yields his foremost place to Man. In serving him, in promoting his elevation, in contributing to his welfare, in doing him good, there are fields of bloodless triumph, nobler far than any in which Bayard or Du Guesclin conquered.
Charles Sumner
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In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train
Bruce Catton
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In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn
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Can a moment of madness make up for
an age of consent?
Basil Bunting
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The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.
Louis Kronenberger
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Jean Rhys
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We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.
Hugo Ball
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Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to 'that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress,' and you find that you're the one in the green dress.
Lois Wyse
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In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
Christian Dior
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty.... but only vaguely. At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
Camille Pissarro
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Gene Fowler
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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
Alfred Marshall
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There are only two things a child will share willingly—communicable diseases and his mother's age.
Benjamin Spock
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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And almost every one when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood
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