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"The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth."
"A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body."
"I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began."
"I like Florida. Everything is in the 80s. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ's."
"He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower."
"Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse."
"Years do not always make age."
"Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age."
"A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages."
"Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release."
"I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight."
"God bless... God damn."
"In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless."
"You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you"
"Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age."
"In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night."
"In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery."
"All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress."
"There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by."
"Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies."
