Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. – John Kenneth Galbraith
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. – Charles de Montesquieu
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. – William Hazlitt
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. – J. K. Rowling
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. – Eric Hoffer
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. – Robert Mugabe
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. – Lyndon B. Johnson
Old age is the verdict of life. – Amelia Barr
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. – Brigitte Bardot
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. – Andre Gide
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. – Joseph Addison
Old age and the passage of time teach all things. – Sophocles
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. – Tom Stoppard
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. – Albert Ellis
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. – Russell Baker
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. – Franklin P. Adams
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends. – Mason Cooley
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. – Mason Cooley
