3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert 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.
3 December 2020 Cate Blanchett If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soulmate.
3 December 2020 Florence King People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
3 December 2020 Martha Gellhorn 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.
3 December 2020 George Burns I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
3 December 2020 Jock Sturges We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
3 December 2020 Cameron Diaz I would love a family. I’m at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
3 December 2020 John Polkinghorne Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can’t construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
3 December 2020 John Donne God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
3 December 2020 Dan Stevens All my early school reports from the age of 5 were ‘Daniel must learn not to distract others.’
3 December 2020 Lev Grossman And I’m not as young as I once was. At my age, I don’t have time to be bored.
3 December 2020 Hesiod Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.
3 December 2020 Eddie Van Halen I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
3 December 2020 Casey Stengel Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
3 December 2020 Lascelles Abercrombie The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
3 December 2020 Keanu Reeves Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
3 December 2020 Barbara Mikulski Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
3 December 2020 Francis Schaeffer In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
3 December 2020 Anthony Horowitz I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
3 December 2020 Gabrielle Union In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you’re on ‘The Golden Girls.’ They age you so fast.
