There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they do not recognize you.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they are going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there is a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

In my old age, I will be in L.A.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.