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"Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life."
"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."
"I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age."
"By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old."
"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."
"When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives."
"I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three."
"When I was your age, television was called books."
"Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation."
"Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers... This is not yet a scientific age."
"A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical."
"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"
"Information is the oxygen of the modern age."
"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."
"And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling."
"No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else."
"You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age."
"Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages."
"The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast."
"To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind."
