He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.
I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.
[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.
Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
I saw what's going on under my chin. I don't want to be the one the President has to pardon on Thanksgiving.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
If you don't grow up by age 35, you don't have to.
As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.
When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.
The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.