What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting provided you live within it.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day you're dealing with the mind of a child so it opens up that childishness in you again.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

Living in an age of advertisement we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day but it changes and withers at a touch.

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 people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Everybody past a certain age regardless of how they look on the outside pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

As technology advances it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

A 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.

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity and indeed of every age in the world have passed through this fiery persecution.

Every age can be enchanting provided you live within it.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

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.

Do 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.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Every 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.

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.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time his day his age.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?

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

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

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.