Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn unageing, undiseased, deathless, sorrowless, undefiled, supreme surcease of bondage, the extinction of all these troubles.
BuddhaThe old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar WildeYou know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like 'See if you can blow this out.'
Jerry SeinfeldOne should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
Oscar WildeA man growing old becomes a child again.
SophoclesYou’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr. SeussThere should not be any trace of dislike or distrust on the score of nationality language, caste, economic status, scholarship, age or sex.
Sai BabaThere are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
BuddhaOld age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
ConfuciusFirst you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up, and finally you forget to pull it down.
George BurnsThe golden age is before us, not behind us.
William ShakespeareYoungsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Erma BombeckMy songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.
Dolly PartonThe approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark TwainWe owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Andre MauroisSex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
George BurnsNobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Alexander HamiltonYouth is a blunder, Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin DisraeliThe information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.
Dave BarryAge merely shows what children we remain.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. LewisAt twenty, a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy, he still wants to reform the world but he know he can't.
Rodney DangerfieldCommon sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert EinsteinI am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark TwainThe older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. MenckenI'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Rodney DangerfieldThe post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
Jane AustenThe parents age must be remembered both for joy and anxiety.
ConfuciusRegrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Charles DickensAt twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar GracianEducation is the best provision for old age.
AristotleAge appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis BaconIntelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Richard DawkinsFor my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches to foreign nations and to the next ages.
Francis BaconWhat is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.
BuddhaBashfulness is an ornament to youth but a reproach to old age.
AristotleAs you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest HemingwayA child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested, on the contrary - he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous HuxleyOld age is the verdict of life.
Amelia BarrWe live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions, and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin DisraeliThe desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years or certainly for the rest of this decade.
Steve JobsEvery age has its own poetry, in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul SartreLife an age to the miserable and a moment to the happy.
Francis BaconMusic is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity and here has its greatest effect on life an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is a hard although a common case To find our children running restive- they In whom our brightest days we would retrace Our little selves reform'd in finer clay Just as old age is creeping on apace And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day Th
Lord ByronNearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers the best of them in doubt and misery the most in plodding hesitation doing as well as they can what practical work lies at hand.
John RuskinMy eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
John WoodenConfusion of goals and perfection of means seems in my opinion to characterize our age.
Albert EinsteinMany believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age I do not want to give it up, I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
MichelangeloBe Silent yourself that will induce Silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation wherever you happen to be. The less you talk the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently you will give up individual discrimination . Because of this you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself.
Sai BabaFor more than four decades the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom exploited their wealth murdered opponents at home and abroad and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Barack ObamaFor all mortals birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.
BuddhaThomas 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 ReaganNo matter where you go always do your duty as you see it and know that I will be there inside you guiding you every step of the way...There is no need to worry about anything. Whatever is experienced whatever happens know that this Avatar willed it so. There is no force on earth which can delay for an instant the mission for which this Avatar has come. You are all sacred souls and you will have your parts to play in the unfolding drama of the new Golden Age which is coming.
Sai BabaTo me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.
Harvey FiersteinOne of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
William FeatherWhat makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean PaulThe enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson WellesThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs fables folk sayings and quotations.
William FeatherA man's only as old as the woman he feels.
Groucho MarxOld age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset MaughamThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin DisraeliEvery great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time his day his age.
Frank Lloyd WrightWhatever you may look like marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades so will his eyesight.
Phyllis DillerHow incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. LewisA man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William ShakespeareThere are few things that we so unwillingly give up even in advanced age as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Samuel JohnsonA bad manner spoils everything even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything - gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Baltasar GracianIt is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone de BeauvoirThis is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord ByronConservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy strengthen our security and strengthen our families.
Mitt RomneyThe tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk! The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith Self-less service and the process of Dedication.
Sai BabaWhat 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 MaughamMen are like wine - some turn to vinegar but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIIIDo 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 PalahniukNo 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 RuskinI try to show my daughter that you have to compete at everything. You can't back down. I want my kids to understand that so when somebody puts an obstacle in front of you and says you can't do something you don't back down. You push through that to get something accomplished. I tried to set that tone for her even at an early age. She's competitive already at the age of 3. Seriously.
Kobe BryantLet every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William ShakespeareThe role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
Joseph CampbellFrom as long as literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns word jokes I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
Tom StoppardPresident Obama instituted the most anti-growth anti-investment anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious I call it reckless.
Mitt RomneyHow can you prosecute a guy when there have been what must be violations of the WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) code? ... The code says when there is just one sample available that sample must always be anonymous. Second that sample can't be used without permission. These are serious violations.
Lance ArmstrongThe House of Lords an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom StoppardAgeism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.
Alanis MorissetteYet Time who changes all had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb, And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim
Lord ByronWe're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program you have to reform it for the next generation.
Paul RyanI'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her I'd also be marrying her former life her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
Henry RollinsAs a white candle In a holy place So is the beauty Of an aged face
Joseph Campbell