We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
Robert Mugabe

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Henry Miller

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
William Butler Yeats

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard M. Nixon

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Michelangelo

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles Dickens

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
Lee Trevino

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
William Wordsworth