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?

There was no respect for youth when I was young and now that I am old there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief as a smart man called it there isn't even more fraud. After all with no God there's no one to ever call you to account and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

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.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents and when age finally stirs their curiosity there is no parent left to tell them.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

I would go out with women my age but there are no women my age.

There 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.

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.

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.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

It were a real increase of human happiness could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings till they emerged sadder and wiser at the age of twenty-five.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of lies evasions folly hatred and schizophrenia.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

There is an anti-aging possibility but it has to come from within.

There's no such thing as old age there is only sorrow.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but years after we know it was much later.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age.

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