Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. – Jonathan Swift
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. – Jonathan Swift
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. – Paul Cezanne
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. – Isabel Allende
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. – Dave Barry
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. – Richard M. Nixon
Age does not matter if the matter does not age. – Jean Paul
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. – David Herbert Lawrence
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. – David Herbert Lawrence
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. – Doug Coupland
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. – Paul Cezanne
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly? – King Abdullah II
Women lie about their age men lie about their income. – William Feather
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. – Liz Carpenter
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? – Desiderius Erasmus
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. – Gustave Flaubert
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. – Paul Klee
Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age. – Jennifer Aniston
