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I am at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you are the one in the green dress.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Old age is a special problem for me because I have never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It is great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I am not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who have not done what they wanted with their lives.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

I am very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I am very pleased to be anywhere.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I have been pursuing all my life.

My husband gave me a necklace. It is fake. I requested fake. Maybe I am paranoid, but in this day and age, I do not want something around my neck that is worth more than my head.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I have liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.