Scriptural lessons not put into practice are poison, a meal is poison to him who suffers from indigestion, a social gathering is poison to a poverty stricken person, and a young wife is poison to an aged man.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Rashness belongs to youth, prudence to old age.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Admiration of the proletariat like that of dams power stations and aeroplanes is part of the ideology of the machine age.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact no matter how suspect is superior to any imaginative exercise no matter how true.

That is experience and age. They are veterans and knowing what they need to do within their system to maximize the whole. They have guys who are extremely talented.

Old age comes on suddenly and not gradually as is thought.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper I ask if they have any aged pepper.

Do not throw coins when beggars stretch their hands for alms, help them to become self-reliant. Provide food and shelter love and care for the sick and aged.

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.

Age carries all things away even the mind.

No lie ever reaches old age.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

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.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Youth has no age.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

With care and skill and cunning art She parried Time's malicious dart And kept the years at bay Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent as written in our contract.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon or perchance a palace or temple on the earth and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

The people are the government administering it by their agents, they are the government the sovereign power.

A lady of a `certain age' which means / Certainly aged.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Few women I fear have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I must confess I was born at a very early age.

Age will not be defied.

In the television age the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour, riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute for half an hour for a day for a month but I can give. I am very happy to do that I want to do that.

If youth knew, if age could.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Advice in old age is foolish, for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.

I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young compassionate with the aged sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Constant travel brings old age upon a man, a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up, lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman, and garments become old through being left in the sun.

No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.

You can't just have slogans you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see touch and actually believe in and something they believe in.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

By all but the pathologically romantic it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

I the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time.

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that from age to age nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

So I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say 'Free at last ' and she says 'You're free all right you're free to do the dishes.' So I say 'You're talking to the former president baby ' and she said 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much we feel so little.

In every country and every age the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Service has been defined as Love made manifest . Baba repeatedly asks us to expand our hearts to include all humanity. He tells us that to care only for our own interests and those of our families is a constriction of our heart. Such constriction eventually results in loneliness and unhappiness -- as indeed we can see all around us for it is the malady of the present age.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

In this age which believes that there is a short cut to everything the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is in the long run the easiest.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get the younger their new wives get.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments with emperors kings and ministers but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

A tart temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

When grace is joined with wrinkles it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

Boys will be boys and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until perhaps she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Expedients are for the hour but principles are for the ages.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Utility is the great idol of the age to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

It is well for the world that in most of us by the age of thirty the character has set like plaster and will never soften again.

And in my own life in my own small way I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams, the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young you get a gold watch you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs alcohol you party you get ready for high school. You go to grade school you become a kid you play you have no responsibilities you become a little baby you go back into the womb you spend your last nine months floating... ...and you finish off as an orgasm.

Old age has its pleasures which though different are not less than the pleasures of youth.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind it don't matter.

The older you get the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till after cloying the gazettes with can't, The age discovers he is not the true one, Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend

At best spiritual voices help us replace madness with clarity & violence, with compassion and peace. But we will live up to the promise only if we overcome the temptation to promote our own narrow comfort and individual peace of mind. If we fail this challenge we will not get a spiritual "new age" but a spiritual dead end.