And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
We got a wonderful present from Stalin and Hitler that they never meant to give us. We were immune for 60 years… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In my old age, I've learned that if I put the right cymbal crash in the very right spot, exactly, it can… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age. — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth. — Francois La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they… — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure, — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is.… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's… — Ralph Hall Copy Share Image
I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what… — Maisie Williams Copy Share Image
Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long. — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine. — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
“Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
From age 16 to 26, I literally became a man in prison so it was influential in shaping me. — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everyone in our clique rocks a black bandana with the print 'EST 19XX' on them 24/7. As the underdog, you are expected… — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar.… — Joaquin Rodrigo Copy Share Image
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image