People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time.
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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.
Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.
The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous - to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.
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.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
We are always the same age inside.
My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.
I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than her age.