At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.

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

Thomas 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.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

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

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.