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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. Thomas Carlyle

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age. Colin Powell

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. Soren Kierkegaard

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age. Billy Graham

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

In youth we learn in age we understand. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. Soren Kierkegaard

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. Alexander Hamilton

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. Bertrand Russell

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. Bertrand Russell