"Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper."
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"As hipster chicks age, and their skin starts to sag, tramp stamps sink below waistbands, like the sun slipping into the sea."
"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."
"I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work."
"I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll."
"Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing."
"Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath."
"The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity."
"An old young man, will be a young old man."
"For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day."
"I am in the prime of senility."
"Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth."
"I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth."
"It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing"
"The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue."
"I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations."
"What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends."
"People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable."
"You have the power to reverse your age."
"Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age."