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"On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old."
"...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world."
"I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me."
"When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing."
"IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there."
"You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution"
"Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!"
"Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)"
"One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short."
"Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt."
"The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence."
"From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best."
"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice."
"I want everybody to feel comfortable with vibing with Drake. I don't want to limit my music to people based on their race and/or age."
"The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age."
"The real affliction of old age is remorse."
"The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion."
"Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength."
"As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly."
"Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are."
