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. – Albert Einstein
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. – Albert Einstein
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. – Albert Einstein
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. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. – Muhammad Ali
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. – Mahatma Gandhi
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. – William Shakespeare
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. – Helen Keller
The golden age is before us, not behind us. – William Shakespeare
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. – Mahatma Gandhi
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. – Oscar Wilde
At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment. – Benjamin Franklin
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. – Anais Nin
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. – Ronald Reagan
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. – John F. Kennedy
Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. – Plato
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. – Ernest Hemingway
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. – Oprah Winfrey
